Shopify Software Developer reviews

Management is a joke. They don't actually solicit any feedback from peers for their feedback cycles so you could get glowing reviews for months straight then suddenly get a bad impact rating out of the blue. So much wasted time on things that shouldn't be needed. Everything is built in house so they have to spend an absurd amount of time doing simple things instead of just using frameworks or tools that have already solved the problem. Way too much hands on intervention by the CEO. It was a running joke that you couldn't get through a product review he was involved in without some product or technical change he'd insist on despite not having anywhere near enough product or technical context for it to matter. But everyone always did it because it was understood you don't say no. Made everyone sit through 4 days of meetings after the layoffs in 2022 where the executive team congratulated themselves on how good of a job they did firing 1000 people. The level of tone deafness on display was disappointing. Basically shrugged when LGBTQ employees expressed concerns about platforming obvious hate speech organizations. Would delete any public slack messages posted about it to silence discussion.

As the org grew, the project focus changed many times which caused confusion and frequent alignment meetings. Other than that, it's great.