Pros
Good perks and some nice people working there who are not management level
Kontras
This company engages in mass layoffs and terminations on the regular. They blindside you with this without even a proper and thorough performance review and chance for improvement. This is obviously the case when the terminations occur within a few weeks of joining the company. There is bad management here and lots of politics. Managers are not fit to be managers as they have little guidance and support, are typically inexperienced (less than 5 years on the job), and don't offer proper support. If you ask your Managers for advice, help, or feedback, they will shut you down as if you made a mistake. Once you are terminated without cause, they will offer you the opportunity to sign a shady termination agreement with or without severance and connect you with a career transition service. This career transition service then tells you that they are currently working with many ex-Shopify employees who have been fired. I am amazed this company has such shady employment practices as they otherwise do good work and portray themselves out to be the social justice warriors of the technology and e-commerce space. My experience at Shopify left me with a lot of sadness, bad will, and severe confidence and mental health loss. Then I found out that they have been doing this for many years now and shut people up by offering to help them find another job through a third-party service. Tobi needs to see this and respond to these concerns. These mass layoffs and terminations after only a few weeks, months, or even years that come out of nowhere are not OK. You should not treat people this way, especially when this is happening during COVID and people's lives are already a mess. I do not recommend working for Shopify at all.