“We’re not a family” - Avis employé Team Leader Shopify

1,0
16 janv. 2023
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

WFH is one of the only real benefits within the role. You will also get roughly $4k for office equipment when you start to set up your home office. A lot of random swag.

Inconvénients

One of the first things I was told by my support lead was “we are not a family, as you can’t fire family”. In the interview they will talk about flexible schedules - this just means you have the flexibility to work from 9a - 9p without having to be in an office. Be prepared for a lot of pointless emails to justify the Support Leads existence within the organisation. Every morning starts with a 30 minute meeting where they will recap the email you have got overnight. No, really, at least 5 hours of your day will be meetings. You won’t have enough time to get your actual work done in between meetings, which will lead to working 10+ hour days most days. Your expected to constantly be on call in some way (mostly through Slack) No real job security. Every month it feels that there’s new teams that have been made redundant. No job progression. You will get told the day you’re due to start your new role that you’re no longer needed in that role. I have seen colleagues be unable to move into their previous role meaning they are essentially fired. A lot of mixed messages from management - especially within the Australian Teams. Compensation and benefits seems okay - but within the contact centre and team leader space you’re being paid at least $10k under market rates - they spin this as due to the benefit of working from home.

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5,0
29 mai 2026
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

- 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.)

2,0
31 mars 2026
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

The work itself is genuinely exciting. Shopify is doing cutting-edge work in AI search visibility and GEO that very few companies are touching at this scale. The tooling is excellent, the problems are interesting, and the peers are talented, collaborative, and generous with their time. If you're passionate about where search is heading, the craft-level work here is hard to beat.

Inconvénients

The management experience on the Growth Marketing / SEO team did not match the quality of the work. Feedback was inconsistent (positive in meetings, critical in private messages) which made it difficult to know where you actually stood. Issues that were never flagged in real time were later consolidated into a formal performance document, which felt predetermined rather than developmental. When I raised concerns professionally about the communication dynamic, the relationship shifted noticeably. I've spoken to others who experienced a similar pattern on this team. The culture says it values direct feedback, but in practice, giving feedback upward was treated very differently than receiving it.

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