- Very collaborative, even across team boundaries
- Very healthy work-life balance culture
- Lots of room to grow, explore, and be impactful
- Remote-friendly
- Fun
Inconvénients
- Seeks constant growth and visibility, which can be difficult to achieve depending on the circumstances
- Internal documentation can be hit-or-miss
- One of Shopify's tenets is "thrive on change" and so there can be a lot of change (org restructures, project scope, etc.)
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
Inconvénients
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