Shopify does not care about you. - Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
20 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Competitive pay that matches industry standards. - Remote work flexibility. - The work itself is engaging, innovative, and challenging. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. - Comprehensive benefits package, covering a wide range of needs. - A developer-centric environment with access to cutting-edge tools like Cursor, Copilot, and LLMs, enabling you to work efficiently and stay at the forefront of technology. - Strong growth opportunities, with plenty of room for career development and skill-building.

Cons

- Micromanagement is a serious issue. Managers focus more on nitpicking work than highlighting any positives, creating a demoralizing environment. - Unlimited vacation is misleading. The culture discourages taking time off, with vacation days viewed as time not contributing to the company’s impact. - Mental health breaks are not genuinely supported, despite claims of prioritizing well-being. Any time off is seen as a disruption to productivity. - Performance is judged on arbitrary metrics like the number of PRs, comments per line of code, and time to ship. There’s immense pressure to produce perfect work on the first try. - The culture places heavy emphasis on metrics like PR reviews, with requirements to review multiple PRs per week, many with in-depth feedback, even when unnecessary or not possible. - Inflexible and outdated management practices. Employees are sometimes threatened with termination as motivation, and management relies on a ranking system that pits peers against each other. - The company prioritizes revenue over employee well-being, and the emphasis on performative actions leaves important cultural issues unresolved. - Managers need retraining in modern management and inclusivity, as well as an understanding of how to actually support employee growth. The culture is toxic, with constant pressure to overperform, shifting goalposts, and little regard for mental health or long-term employee satisfaction. Avoid if you value work-life balance or personal well-being.

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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