Shopify

• Autonomy
• Great pay & benefits
• Lots to learn
• Lots of technical variety
• Overall company stated culture is great
• Good resume booster
• Unlimited vacation package that works
• Work/life balance is around or above average
• Flexible compensation

• Lack of direction.
• Sub-teams may not match the culture presented by the company.
• More product/project management than people management and mentorship.
• Have to work to find support or mentorship.
• Mentorship doesn't come from people you interact with regularly.
• Everyone cares most about making themselves look good over making good software.
• Lack of process means a lot of re-doing work or committing to things with a lot of unknowns.
• Mostly a waterfall-style project structure, so if you thrive in Agile and working closely with teams during the whole process of feature development, then this process will be a big change.

Your developers are as important as your stakeholders.

Building things quickly means you're likely sacrificing quality. Eventually, that lack of quality will cripple your team.

Spend time on your people, not on making yourself look good to senior leadership.