Great environment, lots of opportunity. Not perfect of course. - Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

4.0
May 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- good culture; people genuinely care and are willing to help - values and sponsors personal growth, albeit self-directed - knowledge is shared freely, lots of interesting projects to observe - senior leadership appreciates engineering (CEO was former Rails core contributor!) - fully remote work, with flexibility to work from other countries - supports open source (e.g. has teams dedicated to improving Ruby and Rails)

Cons

- at times, a little chaotic as the company is willing to make big changes quickly - at times, feels like a lot of reading to gain context and syncing up with other teams - technical challenges depend on the team / projects you join

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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