Amazing place to work - Senior Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Sep 11, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Work with amazingly talented people - Work on problems with massive scale - Great developer-centric culture around learning and experimentation - Plenty of opportunities to explore other career paths - Being full-time remote allows those who are parents the flexibility to manage life in a far more manageable way. THE biggest perk is the STRONG emphasis on work/life balance. Those who wish to work longer can, but it's almost discouraged to keep people fresh. Also there's an expectation that you're spending some time to learn the how/why of what you're doing, not just cranking out code for the sake of finishing tasks.

Cons

- No offices due to COVID - Compensation lags a touch behind other big tech companies (though with work-life balance, it might not matter for some)

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
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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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