Most overrated tech company - Web Developer Shopify Employee Review

1.0
Aug 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Working from home forever. Shopify stocks

Cons

The managers are in general very young (below 30 yrs old) and inexperienced. They show clear favoritism based on if you like the same things. Reorg happens every few months and your team members disappear suddenly (fired) on a regular basis. Very chaotic and things keep changing and they are so proud of this being part of the culture 'thriving on change'. It's okay that many companies are operating this way, but the rate of change at Shopify makes it very hard to keep up with the current state of things, the current way to do things, the metaphor of the month, etc. There's almost an expectation for you to spend time outside of working keeping up with this - listening to podcasts, watching talks, reading books. Culture is set by those who live and breathe Shopify, whose sense of work-life balance takes a back seat to their investment in the company. External hires are paid way higher than current employees. The managers and HRs refused to admit. When turnover is obviously so high and we had to spend so much time interviewing new people and HRs keep saying it's normal.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
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Pros

- Kind and talented co-workers - Generous AI token spend - Fairly transparent company (has been getting less transparent over the years) - Lots of opportunity for impact

Cons

- Product management discipline is quite lacking since the new CTO joined - Microsoft culture is adding more chaos and stress, and causing projects to actually go slower - Managers are afraid to tell the truth to Mikhail about the loopholes in engineering; they just want to look good, so they rush their teams to ship crap - Top engineering leaders are moving out of management roles or leaving the company - Tobi used to be far more involved in ensuring a high engineering bar, but seems to have handed over the reins to the new Microsoft regime

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