Phenomenal. - Recruiter Shopify Employee Review

4.0
May 2, 2016
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Loads of opportunity within the organization, everywhere, if you are bold enough to blaze the trails - Lots of support given to employees through resources (conference budget, development library, talent acceleration coaches) - Probably depends on your manager, but on the whole there just isn't micro-managing; instead, there is a lot of trust placed in people - We are really well supported from a personal standpoint as well - yoga, meditation, bike tuneups, great food + drink, great health benefits + more

Cons

- If you can't operate with uncertainty and chaos and don't have the tools to seek support internally at Shopify so you can get better at this, then it might be a tough place to work - The framework is provided, but you really can't wait for someone to tell you what's next...(which is actually more of a pro, but it's a follow up to the last point so I listed it here)

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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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