Shopify Developer reviews

3.5

50% would recommend to a friend

(228 total reviews)
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Tobias Lütke

46% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Developer employees have rated Shopify with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 228 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Shopify is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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228 reviews
2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Kind and talented co-workers - Generous AI token spend - Fairly transparent company (has been getting less transparent over the years) - Lots of opportunity for impact

Cons

- Product management discipline is quite lacking since the new CTO joined - Microsoft culture is adding more chaos and stress, and causing projects to actually go slower - Managers are afraid to tell the truth to Mikhail about the loopholes in engineering; they just want to look good, so they rush their teams to ship crap - Top engineering leaders are moving out of management roles or leaving the company - Tobi used to be far more involved in ensuring a high engineering bar, but seems to have handed over the reins to the new Microsoft regime

5.0
May 29, 2026

Fun and collaborative

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Very collaborative, even across team boundaries - Very healthy work-life balance culture - Lots of room to grow, explore, and be impactful - Remote-friendly - Fun

Cons

- Seeks constant growth and visibility, which can be difficult to achieve depending on the circumstances - Internal documentation can be hit-or-miss - One of Shopify's tenets is "thrive on change" and so there can be a lot of change (org restructures, project scope, etc.)

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