Pay was good but company was disorganized and made it hard to move up - Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

3.0
11 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people I worked with was for the most part pretty good people and I enjoyed working with them. The pay and benefits were very good

Cons

There was no structure when it came to projects. Too many people involved to make simple decisions that led to massive delays in shipping. Often times there was little to no communication between levels making project approvals take ridiculously long. Very disorganized. Was told multiple times that I would be promoted but management kept switching up and then putting holds on promotions. Then once promotions were unfrozen, the goal posts moved so I had to wait another year for a promo.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
29 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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