Great start but not forever. - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

4.0
Nov 5, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great coworkers - Great work environment

Cons

- Unclear workplace "rules". At one point it was suggested you can work from home, then not, then again you could. - Expected to work overtime without overtime pay

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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

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