Not-so-great experience at Shopify - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

1.0
Dec 18, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, amazing culture, coworkers form deep and meaningful relationships, people really care about one another, very smart leadership and workforce.

Cons

Silos in Shopify Plus, bad leadership is given an opportunity to run amok, little to no impact of bottom-up feedback for management.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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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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