Interesting work, great colleagues, let down by leadership - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso Shopify

3,0
10 mag 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- Great developer experience with in-house managed CI and dev instances, which makes working with the code base pretty easy. - Pretty good comp (EMEA), with the option of customising take home vs. equity compensation balance. - Good support for WFH setup on joining. - Great colleagues. Everyone's an expert in their field, and very approachable. Lots of inter-colleague support post redundancies. - Good support for personal development.

Svantaggi

- Size and structure makes it hard to find the right people sometimes. - Every few months, some new sweeping change comes across the org. Sometimes for the best (e.g. comp system), sometimes for the worst (e.g. Workplace adoption, at the cost of Slack), and others yet to be evaluated (new ways of categorising "mastery" and "scope" of your role). - Elephant in the room, two large rounds of layoffs within a year. It's hard to feel optimistic about the company's future, especially from an employee perspective. They overhired, and threw a curveball at thousands of people. - Lots of cost cutting around team meetups, even though some folks were struggling to have an annual meetup, where other employees were jetting off on a monthly basis. - Very US/Canada focused, despite globally distributed teams. EMEA felt like an afterthought in terms of scheduling anything.

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5,0
2 lug 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Amazing company with incredible product

Svantaggi

None that I can think of

2,0
29 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- 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

Svantaggi

- 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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