Great team, WLB but low compensation - Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

3.0
11 Jun 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good culture and people who care about mentorship on my team. I feel valued by my team and good WLB

Cons

Seeing a trend of people leaving and now that more companies are hiring remotely, Shopify salaries are 20-30% lower compared to market. Talent and comp claims that we pay competitively but market data definitely says otherwise. Take a look on Blind, most posts are around how low salaries are. Raises and promos are also low, it's difficult to stay knowing that you're not fairly compensated.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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2.0
29 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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