- challenging work environment
- ongoing learning opportunities
- great management who have hands on experience
- quarterly2-day hack days for the whole company
- amazing perks & benefits (not just the normal "startup" perks - little things throughout the year just because really make you feel rewarded
Cons
- a little chaotic at times - even with hundreds of people it still has a startup feel
- sometimes you have to jump outside of your comfort zone to work on projects not currently being focused on
Shopify Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. Our HR and culture teams value your input as we strive to improve life at Shopify.
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