The Best Place to Work - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Dec 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Culture that values personal growth and wellbeing. Friendly people who love to talk about ideas. If you have a good idea, you get the resources to run with it.

Cons

Can be mentally draining if you don't learn to pace yourself in such an ambitious environment. Chaotic - though that can be a good thing compared to the alternative (bureaucratic processes).

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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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 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Legacy Shopify ICs and lower-level managers are excellent and generally quite nice (company's Canadian after all) Caliber of engineering talent is generally high Dev-friendly stack (Ruby/Rails) Bleeding-edge AI adoption with unlimited token budget

Cons

Recently brought over a CTO from Microsoft: he brought with him a lot of not-at-all-nice people who are highly political, frequently rude/condescending to legacy Shopifolk, and make consistently bad/dev-hostile technical decisions Bleeding-edge AI adoption is being used to justify unreasonably increased expectations

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