Shopify Senior Software Developer reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(92 total reviews)
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Tobias Lütke

43% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Shopify with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 92 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Shopify is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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92 reviews
2.0
Sep 14, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy place to coast, good work life balance, good opportunities for career growth.

Cons

Compensation is below industry average, especially for those who have been at Shopify for a long period of time. They would rather let long-term employees leave, and turn around and hire people with less experience and context for more money than keeping their tenured employees would cost. Lots of gas lighting from senior leadership in regards to our benefits/compensation. They state "culture" as being a main factor making up for our below average pay with one VP even citing not being called during the delivery of his child as a reason why our culture is so good. If you want to work hard, go to another company that will pay you accordingly. Shopify is a great place to coast with friendly people, but they will not pay you what you are worth ESPECIALLY once you are here.

5.0
Sep 11, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Work with amazingly talented people - Work on problems with massive scale - Great developer-centric culture around learning and experimentation - Plenty of opportunities to explore other career paths - Being full-time remote allows those who are parents the flexibility to manage life in a far more manageable way. THE biggest perk is the STRONG emphasis on work/life balance. Those who wish to work longer can, but it's almost discouraged to keep people fresh. Also there's an expectation that you're spending some time to learn the how/why of what you're doing, not just cranking out code for the sake of finishing tasks.

Cons

- No offices due to COVID - Compensation lags a touch behind other big tech companies (though with work-life balance, it might not matter for some)

2.0
Aug 5, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- tonnes of perks: SWAG, lots of monetary benefits - it's big, so maybe you can shuffle to find a team you like

Cons

- toxic top-down culture: leadership says a lot of pretty words, but they don't actually want your feedback - the toxicity is driven by the CEO - mandatory on-call - weird imbalance between "how good we say we are, and what we say we can do" vs what we can actually get done

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