Toxic environment - Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Nov 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good coworkers - Sometimes interesting projects - Fully remote

Cons

- Chaotic environment. More time spent dealing with that than building things that ship. - Unclear development and advancement opportunities. Ambiguous performance and comp system. - Ran by a megalomaniac that surrounds himself by incompetent yes-men.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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