A used to be - Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

3.0
May 25, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation package is good (for now).

Cons

It's a company based on personal cult around the CEO, who is a micromanagement control freak, and the new senior management team also has the same style. It's detrimental to long term development of the company. Benefits had been diminished since going "digital by default" (working remotely forever). The latest massive layoffs were handled very amateurishly. Good luck to those who were spared, would be a heck of a job trying to pick up the works after all the good developers were let go.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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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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