Atmosphere of fear at Shopify - Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Feb 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Growth Opportunities. Remote if you look for that. Large exposure to customer-facing problems and understanding of how the business works. Good opportunity for Canadians to get experience at a legit large software company. Good travel and health benefits.

Cons

Top down pressure to use AI tooling to generate subpar code by people who don't understand generative AI/neural networks. CEO has severe dunning-kruger syndrome which permeates into mid-management as well. They pay canadian salaries to americans (canadian midlevel = american junior). Very little incentives to actually get along with your coworkers vs outcompete them.

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5.0
Jun 10, 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
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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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