One huge career mistake I made - Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Jul 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Free table - Free chair - Free internet

Cons

They advertise complete transparency and being "the good guy" tech company, but - Has some of the worst salaries in the industry - Bait employees to stay with broken promises of salary adjustments - Rescind intern offers - Fire employees secretly behind the scenes citing performance reasons including the ones with positive impact reviews - Has heavy moderation in all internal communication tools and threatening employees with various retaliations when they speak up - Threatens employees with push for 996 work culture

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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