Intentional Toxic Work Culture - Principal Data Scientist Shopify Employee Review

1.0
Sep 8, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary & Compensation flexibility

Cons

The culture (or lack thereof) is toxic and management lacks any sense of empathy. The company has an adversarial view of its employees. It’s clear that Shopify has over hired/compensated post-pandemic and have also taken a strong POV towards AI replacing its workforce. The company is intentionally making work miserable/upping the pressure & demands so that they do not need to do public layoffs and instead would rather employees burnout, have mental breakdowns, and leave on their own accord.

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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.

1.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

High comp and AI forward. One of the few remote places left.

Cons

Upper management basically openly disdains the “working class”, and it’s a major jostle among the VP and Director level for currying favor with the CEO. The investment in AI tooling is smart but also the C suite majorly suffers from AI psychosis, it’s embarrassing, actually.

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