Cult of groupthink. Avoid if your a critical thinker, or if you want work life balance. - Solutions Engineer Shopify Employee Review

1.0
Feb 11, 2020
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of fattening, luxurious food. open bar on site Interns get a retreat where wild stuff always seems to happen Great learning environment Smart people Very cool product Beautiful art stuffed office. VR arcade in office 'perks perks and no perks'

Cons

-culture of dishonesty surrounding their product and how many merchants they actually have vs just people owning accounts -out of control progressivism, with patches of hyper political correctness- say they value viewpoint diversity but beware if you are conservative -culture of greenwashing where they advertise being environmentally friendly, but then have key products that enable massive waste in the online ecosystem -culture of high ideals that are betrayed by constant doublespeak -be prepared to feel cognitive dissonance -high stress due to fast growth and poor mid level management -inadequate recognition of introverts because you must be 'high impact and be good at branding and advertising yourself' with no formal evaluation criteria - popular people who do little do well here -your contract says 40 hours, but 50-60 was not uncommon when you include all of the 'not mandatory' social events -culture of burnout and discrimination against people with preexisting mental health issues who can't handle it -had management slash the intern housing allowance in two in the middle of our internship. as an intern, you're basically disposable.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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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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