3.0
Jul 24, 2016
Current employee
Saint John, NB
Recommend
Business Outlook
Pros
Great people to work with, and the leads try to be understanding.
Cons
A lot is expected of you as a guru. Benefits don't kick in until after 6 months. Schedule sucks.
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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Current employee, less than 1 year
Austin, TX
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
Current employee, more than 3 years
Chicago, IL
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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