Shopify reviews

3.4

46% would recommend to a friend

(3,726 total reviews)
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Tobias Lütke

49% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Shopify has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,726 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shopify employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews
4.0
Nov 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Depending on your manager, very flexible - Benefits are pretty amazing & lots of employee appreciation touchpoints - A leader in the industry - always working on and rolling out interesting innovations ahead of the market - If you live near the offices, they are great spaces to work from and connect with others - Worked with a ton of awesome, intelligent people - Lots of opportunity to grow or explore other disciplines

Cons

- Layoffs are ALWAYS happening quietly, caused a lot of anxiety - Restructures happen quite frequently and unnecessarily - got whiplash from boomeranging back and forth between strategies, was distracting and always took a lot of time to reset before ultimately changing again - A lot of internal politics

1.0
Nov 26, 2025

What a mess

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- The people who actually do the work are hard working, kind, creative, and deeply intelligent - Name recognition gets you far

Cons

Leadership here is a joke. Constant re-orgs, bell curve performance reviews with quotas that turn into excuses to lay people off. All to cover up for the fact that leadership doesn't know what it's doing, with no regard for the employee lives it affects. There are constantly new initiatives launched before an old one has really been given the resources and time it requires. Get ready to have all of your work paused for 1-2 quarters and then try to prove your impact in a performance review after not being allowed to move forward on anything. Have fun explaining to the COO who "just wants to get to know your department" what it is you do in 5 minutes or less. Leadership just has zero EQ.

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