Wonderful company culture, jumpstarted my career in design - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Dec 7, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people here are so supportive and want to see you succeed. I had a fantastic mentor and I always had the resources I needed. The design culture at Shopify is amazing, I loved working for a company that seriously valued UX. The food is also delicious!!

Cons

Ottawa is not my favorite. Shopify is definitely the most fun place in that city. Wish they would open up offices in the US or abroad!

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

2.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

Legacy Shopify ICs and lower-level managers are excellent and generally quite nice (company's Canadian after all) Caliber of engineering talent is generally high Dev-friendly stack (Ruby/Rails) Bleeding-edge AI adoption with unlimited token budget

Cons

Recently brought over a CTO from Microsoft: he brought with him a lot of not-at-all-nice people who are highly political, frequently rude/condescending to legacy Shopifolk, and make consistently bad/dev-hostile technical decisions Bleeding-edge AI adoption is being used to justify unreasonably increased expectations

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