Used to be great! - Risk Analyst Shopify Employee Review

1.0
10 Aug 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Home office allowance, 3.500 EUR per year for wellbeing and lifestyle spending.

Cons

- They used to be great, but now they fire people to please shareholders when they lose money on bad projects - They used to give a lot of goodies for employees but not anymore - They will not think twice about firing people if an AI can do the job - They don't follow their own values, even though they say they are creating a company for the next 100 years, and that we are like a family, they way they are operating is very unstable and hypocritical. - Work life balance went to trash when they fired thousands of people without thinking about the workload that would be left for those who stayed.

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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