Way better than I expected. - Guru (Remote) Shopify Employee Review

5.0
12 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great place. Great culture. Young. Vibrant and You need to be Willing to be Challenged. Good house cleaning perks. Good health care coverage.

Cons

- It is taxing to be guru. First six months were toughest thing I ever did in my life. Having another job a few other things on the side doesn't help either. - No matching RRSP. - Make you feel old working there since everyone is so young

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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
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Legacy Shopify ICs and lower-level managers are excellent and generally quite nice (company's Canadian after all) Caliber of engineering talent is generally high Dev-friendly stack (Ruby/Rails) Bleeding-edge AI adoption with unlimited token budget

Cons

Recently brought over a CTO from Microsoft: he brought with him a lot of not-at-all-nice people who are highly political, frequently rude/condescending to legacy Shopifolk, and make consistently bad/dev-hostile technical decisions Bleeding-edge AI adoption is being used to justify unreasonably increased expectations

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