Cult-like Culture, Then Dumped Over Email
Cult-like Culture, Then Dumped Over Email
Thoroughly enjoyed working with everyone at Shopify. Their employee culture team does an extraordinary job at making employees, including themselves, believe they are part of something bigger than themselves and are crafting e-commerce history (within reason).
Terrible impact on mental health (those laid off and those not).
Layoffs aren't fun, but there are graceful ways to handle them versus thoughtless or deceitful management.
Management reported an increase in revenue and promised there wouldn't be layoffs a month prior, stating the company was doing well despite tough economic conditions.
Then, one day, you wake up with a breakup email. The content specified that the brief breakup information session happened during your time zone's 5 am, so it's too bad you missed it and only have the dumping email to look at.
Handle layoffs better.
No one blames you for having to do it, but you are absolutely responsible for genuinely helping people transition out better and should care for their mental health.
You never know when you might be cutting lives short (literally).
Give advance warnings or at least have your HR team be ready to respond, rather than simply not responding and threatening everyone with a sign-by date.
Do better.
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Dublin, IrelandMay 1, 2021I had two interviews there, both remote using Google Meet. The first one was a one-hour coding exercise. The second was composed of two one-hour interviews: Life Story and Management Life Story. After the second interview, I never received any fee
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December 17, 2025I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. Passed the technicals and had multiple EMs say I could join at team match, but opaquely got declined at the hiring committee. It’s a generalized interview track, then team match happ
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IrelandMarch 1, 2022I was headhunted on LinkedIn by a recruiter who reached out to set up an initial call. They later rescheduled this call. Then, they were late to the second call and seemed incredibly flustered. They asked a few rushed questions and then passed me to
