Shopify

Remote-first with decent perks and a focus on providing a good experience.

Friendly people and team members.

Good work-life balance.

Trust in leadership has been nose-diving recently, due to broken promises, lack of transparency, and radio silence on the recent compensation adjustment.

Promotions and comp reviews are frozen until October. This means a big portion of the company who joined in 2021 have lost 70% on their stock grants and are now going on 18 months without a pay review.

A team has been hired to moderate Slack, the main form of communication in a remote setting. Some Slack channels have been quite critical of leadership and their decisions, but these posts have begun to be removed and channels are being locked. In some cases, employees have been warned by HR for their usage of dismissive emoji when thumbs-downing posts from leadership in the locked channels.

Just accept when you mess things up and apologize, with a promise to fix it. All anyone really wants to see is accountability.