Shopify

Great developer experience with in-house managed CI and dev instances, which makes working with the codebase pretty easy.

Pretty good comp (EMEA), with the option of customizing take-home pay vs. equity compensation balance.

Good support for WFH setup on joining.

Great colleagues. Everyone's an expert in their field and very approachable. Lots of inter-colleague support post-redundancies.

Good support for personal development.

Size and structure make it hard to find the right people sometimes.

Every few months, some new sweeping change comes across the org. Sometimes for the best (e.g., comp system), sometimes for the worst (e.g., Workplace adoption at the cost of Slack), and others are yet to be evaluated (new ways of categorizing "mastery" and "scope" of your role).

Elephant in the room: two large rounds of layoffs within a year. It's hard to feel optimistic about the company's future, especially from an employee perspective. They overhired and threw a curveball at thousands of people.

Lots of cost-cutting around team meetups, even though some folks were struggling to have an annual meetup, while other employees were jetting off on a monthly basis.

Very US/Canada-focused, despite globally distributed teams. EMEA felt like an afterthought in terms of scheduling anything.

Hope the redundancies are actually over now. Can't imagine you'll get the best out of your employees if they're worrying about losing their job in 6 months, regardless of performance or tenure.