It’s definitely a job - Staff Data Scientist Shopify Employee Review

3.0
Apr 28, 2025
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Pays pretty well, very high talent density, great logo for the résumé, definitely way ahead of the industry curve on some important stuff, net net a product that is better for the world than the only bigger competitor

Cons

The CEO is an intense, volatile person who almost feels like a cult leader at times and several members of the C suite are flat out bad. This permeates the rest of the company, to varying degrees but as time goes by leadership is very clearly working to promote a culture of fear. No company is perfect and normally I would say, the most important thing is your manager and immediate team. But Shopify will reorg you at least once or twice a year so be prepared for that, and for having very little agency in general.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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 29, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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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