Rocket ship being built and you're hanging on for dear life and it's going everywhere but nowhere - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

3.0
5 Feb 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Shopify has amazing perks and benefits, fancy shiny offices, amazing PR headlines, catered lunches and everything you would want in terms of "things".

Cons

Inside - it's a total mess, with no process, no leadership, it strips you of your confidence, and self worth. You can work on a project for 2 years and it never sees the light of day because there is a sudden change in direction. It's something that cannot be explained unless you start working and see it for what it is.

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
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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
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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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