Good starting salary but poor management and no growth - Software Engineer Intern Shopify Employee Review

2.0
May 6, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

pretty good starting salary for Canada good people nice office

Cons

management is all eyes no ears, can't really move to full time since apparently you need to sell your soul and free time just for a chance to be considered. Expect to have a billion tabs opens and juggling 5 tickets at once with the manager pinging you every hour to ask if its done and berate you that you are not using AI more to get it done faster no career progression, only seniors are hired everyone else fired.

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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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