Was caught up in layoffs, but treated well nonetheless - Senior Technical Program Manager Shopify Employee Review

4.0
Apr 14, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Despite only having worked there for 2 months, received a 4 month severance - Solid culture focused on work-life balance - the best "Dollars-per-hour-worked" job I've had to date

Cons

- Company felt extremely bureaucratic - the exact thing they set out to disrupt. Small decisions required multiple approvals up the chain of command, and by the time it was approved, the motion was often no longer relevant. They claim to focus on "GSD" but their reach exceeds their grasp due to the bloated checks & balances required to move the levers. - Leadership very isolated. The only time I was even on the same call as a VP was on the 10 minute call when they laid me off. Hard to feel like you're part of the decision making process. - Lots of busywork completing status updates that I have the sneaking suspicion would never be reviewed more than 1 level above you.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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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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