Great ICs and CEO, rapidly declining culture due to Microsoft invasion
Great ICs and CEO, rapidly declining culture due to Microsoft invasion
Legacy Shopify ICs and lower-level managers are excellent and generally quite nice, as the company is Canadian after all.
The caliber of engineering talent is generally high. There is a dev-friendly stack using Ruby and Rails. The company features bleeding-edge AI adoption with an unlimited token budget.
Recently, the company brought over a CTO from Microsoft. He brought with him a lot of not-at-all-nice people who are highly political, frequently rude or condescending to legacy Shopifolk, and make consistently bad and dev-hostile technical decisions.
Bleeding-edge AI adoption is being used to justify unreasonably increased expectations.
Fire the CTO.
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