Great employer, very deserving of the Employer of the Year award - Designer Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Dec 13, 2016
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

I've worked at many places in my industry and Shopify is one of the most fun, energetic, and interesting places I've ever been at. It's full of hungry, ambitious people from all walks of life and not a day goes by that isnt interesting. It's also growing at an astonishing place, thanks in part to these people and the great culture that exists in each of its distinct offices.

Cons

Due to being based in Canada, sometimes it feels like Shopify has exhausted the talent pool in it's cities. As a result a lot of people are hired with not a whole lot of experience elsewhere, and because Shopify is such a unique place to work it seems to cultivate a sense of entitlement in some people, and a lot of it's beauty gets taken for granted.

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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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