Hi there, I'm expecting an offer soon from Shopify and since I'm coming from a big company, the recruiter kept stressing and asking about my salary expectation from the first day of the interview. I wonder what is the current Senior SDE salary @Shopidy (L6). I heard they give 150k USD stocks / 3 years and a base of 140k CAD in Canada, is that true? lol. So that's roughly ~ 205k CAD a year. I wonder what is the right number I should ask for? I wanted to aim for 250, but wondering if that's doable or not since I saw some posts saying that they don't accept negotiations and some people had their offers rejected? (IDC tbh, just want to know my cards before I play the game). TC: 210 #Shopify
Why moving to Canada ?
They negotiate, prepare your offer
So possible to get 250k TC? I heard that recently they started to adapt with the current market salary and that they started to increase the RSU for employees especially after the huge stock drop
Idk about that number. Is it a senior position?
TC is peanuts at shopify, look elsewhere. Bay unicorns or FAANG pay best
MSFT>SHOP
I joined as an L6 at the end of last year and got 130k CAD base + 150k USD stock over 3 years
I appreciate your comment. So you basically got 195k TC. I guess this is basically what they offer to L6s unless you counter offer it or negotiate a bit, have you tried to? Did you get sign on bonus?
Yeah, about 200k if you consider the Lifestyle Spending Account 5k as well. I didn't try. This was my first jump to a big company so I just accepted. In hindsight, I should have tried to negotiate, but live and learn. Next time! No sign on bonus.
Dude don’t go. Shopify is a downgrade and Microsoft pays better. That company explicitly tells people in onhands they want “passionate” engineers who will accept 🥜 . That’s the reason they were stressing about your TC expectations. Expect them to offer under 200k CAD TC for an L6.
I don't think "downgrade", I'm not going to a lower level. If TC is < 200K I'll ask for more and see, at the end of the day I can't go somewhere and work for less. Shopify is not a bad name though, I know Microsoft is way higher but if we think like that, that means any FAANG engineer can't go to any other company than FAANGs or we may even need to shrink that name to 2-3 characters. I would still apply in other places and see what's the best. If shopify offers a bigger TC than what I do today, maybe I can use it to get a bump here too.
You are perfect person for Shopify. Mission driven and refusing to listen to sound logic. Welcome onboard!
I only get 112 stock :(
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Thanks for your comment but I'm looking forward for some real comments :) I know peanuts, but remember, in Canada, Shopify's salary can be a dream to many. I know engineers and seniors here making half what they offer.
There are tons of companies that can pay literally double for senior in Canada I make almost as much as that L6 offer as a new grad, and most new grads after 1-1.5 year get promo'd and make more than L6 Shopify