Came across a few profiles and heard stories of people who got laid off at shopify. Guess what they had in common? They were all working in Data science! I’ve seen 3-4 data science directors on Linkedin posting for opportunities. Anyone else see the similar pattern? #shopify
any chance that you’re in data science, OP? your network might have a bigger influence on your newsfeed results than shopify’s layoff preferences
And if OP is in data science and does not know about the influence on the data that this causes, he might need to be let go too...
My LinkedIn showed a ton of eng open to work from Shopify and only a couple DS
One data science director was really a LinkedIn lunatic. Last year, he was posting about how he was chilling at the beach 🏖️ Talking about logistics leader #PS
Lot of work life bullshit and constant shitting on amazon 🤣😂… that too with charts.
That was next level shit when he brought that bar chart out of his ass
Shopify is done history
Layoffs were broad, but a lot were in merchant success.
What happened to Shopify? Weren't they like the next Tesla?
They over hired based on pandemic growth numbers and now the growth has cooled. They’re still a viable long term player but they got a bit ahead of themselves (as most did in the tech sector)
Time will tell. Canadian companies have struggled on adapting to changing conditions (eg. Blackberry). We will see if Shopify can be a real long term tech company
Their DS is mostly analytics people
I second this, I came in a DS and quickly found the team I joined was doing about 99% analytics work. And with the new analytics engineering team there’s likely even less need for anything more than analyst skills for the majority of their DS roles.
What about their data SRE roles? Actual data related stuff ?
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