Pros: Really smart people work at Shopify. They are great programmers, designers, and product managers.

Cons: You have to enjoy a fast-changing environment.

Pros: An interesting project, highly educated people, and true professionals. Great benefits and salary.

Cons: Double standards: the company always talks about how it values its employees, but at the same time, it easily fires them during staff cuts or if they had to return to Ukraine (that's how I got fired, simply because the company did not want to take risks, despite the fact that I devoted four years of my life to this company). Career growth: it is very difficult to move up the career ladder. There is a lot of competition and a constant internal struggle for promotions. If initially you did not agree on good wage conditions, then it will be very difficult to change anything and get an increase.

Pros: Very strong pay rate (still not enough to negate the uninteresting work). CEO is good at stamping out certain contemporary cultural excesses. It is a genuinely interesting business and an interesting industry to be in.

Cons: The least interesting work I've ever had, combined with the most deadline pressure I've ever had – a remarkably bad combination. Uninteresting technology platform. The guy from Memento had better continuity than the software planners governing my team; folks were desperately mashing on the control panel, figuratively. Monolith often meant poor bounds around each team's ownership of work and unbounded expectations placed on you.