Shopify

• I was able to switch to a team delivering products of very high impact.
• Ability to take ownership quickly (I led my first project 3 months in).
• Very talented team.
• Few meetings.

All remote, so I was not able to build relationships with nearly any of my colleagues, and none from other departments.

Having been a senior before, I did not appreciate that I was put in the mid-level bucket. Although I took senior-level responsibilities (onboarding a team, architecture planning, coaching, hiring, company-wide presentations), I was not given a timeline towards a potential promotion back to the senior level.

The “woke” culture was definitely present. I did not appreciate employees publicly speaking badly of upper management's actions on Slack without repercussions. If they don’t like the work environment and don’t want to fit in, let them go faster than later.