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Worst of both worlds with 6RS - Anonymous employee 6 River Systems Employee Review

1.0
Mar 3, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits due to Shopify (barely makes up for low base pay). Most co-workers are genuinely kind and helpful.

Cons

Low base pay. Not sure why so many talented and hard-working people are still here post-buyout. Unclear vacation guidance. Hard to comfortably take time off in the support organization. Has become a sales/business heavy culture. Too much applause for people who don’t actually contribute to the product. Worst of both worlds meaning that you get the expectation of hard work that comes with a start-up but low-upside now that it’s been bought out (and the corporate pay suppression that goes along with that). There is no point in being humble at this company - you will be taken advantage of and worked to death while your less modest coworkers move up. This is not the way it should be at a place that values being “scrappy.” Definitely sacrificing culture for scale.

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5.0
May 20, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Tech that works - team has a strong culture.

Cons

Acquisitions and new ownership has been distracting.

3.0
Dec 11, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of freedom, pay was good, offsites and travel were fun, people were generally good. Layoff was great, had been thinking about jumping ship anyway and the severance was generous due to Shopify ownership

Cons

Crazy software organization. Every team was silo'd but each one was working on some different version of the same thing. There wasn't much leadership going on, just a bunch of people who had been there for a long time at the top. Bottlenecks left and right on devops who were not the kindest people not only because of that but they had the leverage to behave that way. I felt all this before the layoff. I really have no hard feelings about being laid off I was pleasantly surprised by it.

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