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Stultifying, Yet High Pressure

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Shopify for 1 year
May 25, 2023
2.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Very strong pay rate (still not enough to negate the uninteresting work).

CEO is good at stamping out certain contemporary cultural excesses.

It is a genuinely interesting business and an interesting industry to be in.

Cons

The least interesting work I've ever had, combined with the most deadline pressure I've ever had – a remarkably bad combination. Uninteresting technology platform. The guy from Memento had better continuity than the software planners governing my team; folks were desperately mashing on the control panel, figuratively. Monolith often meant poor bounds around each team's ownership of work and unbounded expectations placed on you.

Advice to Management

I imagine you think that you're "agile" or "pivoting" or whatever, but if you shift priorities too frequently, your employees will inevitably conclude that there's no point to what they're working on right now.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
3.0

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