Lot of promises which fizzled out - Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

4.0
15 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing place to learn and meet smart people, build things that have a huge impact. Love what Shopify does. Great perks and stock (when it was lower). Great if you have entrepreneurship experience otherwise see cons.

Cons

Base salary is below par They down level you by a lot. Hard to get promoted and simply a pain that it's killed my motivation. They say feedback is a gift but I know I can do more and while I ask for it and have been doing so for 9 months now, no signs of moving forward.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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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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