Great company and benefits, but very mentally tiring and draining - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

4.0
Jan 31, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Work remotely (don't have to travel) - Get great benefits - Get all equipment needed including laptop and monitor sent to you - Working for a growing and high potential company

Cons

- Working remotely (don't get to meet people in person, can get lonely) - Still a 9-5 job but at home, with 30-minute lunch. Pretty strict on that. - Need to be glued to your computer for 8 hours straight. - Stressfull, they require you to hold 3 chats at the same time and more.

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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 29, 2026
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Pros

- Kind and talented co-workers - Generous AI token spend - Fairly transparent company (has been getting less transparent over the years) - Lots of opportunity for impact

Cons

- Product management discipline is quite lacking since the new CTO joined - Microsoft culture is adding more chaos and stress, and causing projects to actually go slower - Managers are afraid to tell the truth to Mikhail about the loopholes in engineering; they just want to look good, so they rush their teams to ship crap - Top engineering leaders are moving out of management roles or leaving the company - Tobi used to be far more involved in ensuring a high engineering bar, but seems to have handed over the reins to the new Microsoft regime

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