Tobi's vision about the future of commerce gets any smart engineer excited and inspired to work at Shopify - Developer Evangelist Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Oct 2, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing Culture Super smart and yet down-to-earth engineers Transparency

Cons

Ruby on Rails (most teams use only Ruby on Rails as their core technology and I'm personally not a big fan of it) Hackathons instead of Google's 80-20

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

2.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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

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

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