Vantaggi
Overall the culture is great here and I really like MOST of the people I work with. Of course there are a few bad apples here and there that you have to deal with. The onboarding process was great and it was a fun and exciting way to join a new company. Shopify offers what I would consider a locally competitive compensation package with very competitive benefits, with the only unfortunately aspect being the decline of equity due to the fall of the stock price. With flex vacation I was able to take 5 weeks off in the last year. The company offers a lot of cool perks including the ability to work from another country for 90 days, and a discount on language lessons, just to name a few.
Svantaggi
While the perks are great, when it gets to the day to day, it gets real bad here. I have never worked so much in my entire career. I am talking evenings and weekends on a regular basis pulling 60 hours per week on average. The issue stems from Executive Leadership and Upper Management, who simply do not know now how to plan projects, and manage their resources effectively. I find that I am constantly working on the same things over and over again because of reiterations, decision changes, and just poor planning. Much of the work my team does gets scrapped and we are told to start something else constantly and it is very frustrating. You really need a thick skin and have the ability to pivot very quickly here. I do feel that Executive Leadership here is still learning how to lead a large tech company after the rapid growth they experienced during 2020 and 2021, and they are really dropping the ball quite a bit. Overpromising or overcommitting to complex ideas and projects occur on a regular basis here and they have too much ego to admit that they are not the experts in what they are trying to accomplish. While the Pros are good, I think I need to start reconsidering my options to save my own personal life and work life balance.