Don't believe the hype - Senior Lead Shopify Employee Review

1.0
21 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- really generous perks & benefits

Cons

- complete disconnect between what they say about the culture and how it actually shows up internally - highly matrixed and HIGHLY political - concentration of power exists within a very small group of people. If you aren't "in"with them, it's impossible to get things done - top management doesn't treat people very well - very harsh criticism, changing priorities, disrespectful, never any positive praise - as a result, that type of behaviour and leadership style is accepted and rewarded across the company - so much gossip! People have no trouble saying horrible things behind your back but never provide you with the feedback to your face

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

2.0
29 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Kind and talented co-workers - Generous AI token spend - Fairly transparent company (has been getting less transparent over the years) - Lots of opportunity for impact

Cons

- Product management discipline is quite lacking since the new CTO joined - Microsoft culture is adding more chaos and stress, and causing projects to actually go slower - Managers are afraid to tell the truth to Mikhail about the loopholes in engineering; they just want to look good, so they rush their teams to ship crap - Top engineering leaders are moving out of management roles or leaving the company - Tobi used to be far more involved in ensuring a high engineering bar, but seems to have handed over the reins to the new Microsoft regime

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