Incredible Place to Work. - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Jun 27, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The perks are almost embarrassing. Catered breakfast & lunch, beer on tap, plentiful snacks, significant professional development budget, sport equipment stipend, childbirth bonus, monthly housecleaning stipend, monthly childcare stipend...the list goes on. What makes this place the most sticky, however, is the culture. Can't speak for everybody, but I've never felt as empowered and respected as I have here. You have the opportunity to do your best work and are recognized for doing well.

Cons

It's a fast pace. I've been here three months and have found myself working late more often than I did at my last job. There's no relaxation police, though -- on slow days you might play a lot of ping-pong, and on busy days you work later. It's a good balance.

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5.0
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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
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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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