Solid Company with some great perks and great people - Lead Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

4.0
Oct 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Intelligent co-workers - Solid Lunch (Ottawa) - Excellent office (if you like pods) - Good equipment

Cons

- People who made the company what it is seem to all be leaving - Heavy Kool-aid culture (everything is awesome) - What used to be a highly merit based promotion system seems to be moving to hired leadership - Terrible work life balance - RRSP/Dental/Medical Benefits are a little bit wanting

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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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.

1.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

High comp and AI forward. One of the few remote places left.

Cons

Upper management basically openly disdains the “working class”, and it’s a major jostle among the VP and Director level for currying favor with the CEO. The investment in AI tooling is smart but also the C suite majorly suffers from AI psychosis, it’s embarrassing, actually.

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