Shopify

• Fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Ability to contribute meaningfully in many different ways.
• Very little restriction on solutions and problem-solving.
• Amazing benefits and remote-first culture.
• Good compensation.

• Things change too fast, with little regard for normal day-to-day operations.
• Churn of technologies and various department pivots can happen without much warning, causing you to be in a cycle of "always catching up" because another pivot is about to happen.
• Arbitrary success frameworks.
• Leadership could not align from top-down, resulting in a lot of rework constantly.

Allow for "getting to one" after a big change. A lot happens constantly, and it feels like there's always a need to catch up. This is great in some respects, but it leaves employee advancement in a constant purgatory, as well as work planning constantly being thrown out the window.

The project management framework is also a bottleneck due to arbitrary restrictions. It's intended to get out of the way of the developer, but it actually hinders them as they wait for approvals/reviews or need "something to fill out."

Less top-down "theorizing" about what'll make things faster/better, and more collaborative interactions with "lower-level" employees. While you don't have a "middle management problem" in the traditional sense, the behaviors are still there from upper-level leadership.