Shopify Developer - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

2.0
10 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- You're given everything you need to succeed - Perks are fantastic - The work is interesting due to the scale of the business

Cons

- Some inexperienced managers who have no idea how to lead - Very boxed in architecture, select few make the decisions who lack experience at scale - Atmosphere is somewhat "clicky", almost like high school

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5.0
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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.

2.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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