Where should I go next? Ignore TC (I know unthinkable for this community) let’s assume it’s relatively equal and both are fully remote. Current TC: 0 (by choice) I am moving away from sales engineering roles and back into pure tech. I have two opportunities. Which should I take and why?
I voted Shopify. I like the good outlook on my company’s stocks but the shit I’m doing is soooo boring. This brings up another take to this post too. You might want to consider the products you’re working on. The team members if some of them already interviewed you especially your future manager. Would you enjoy working with them and such? Honestly you won’t get your answer here given this little info about both roles.
Both companies have roles that are super interesting to me. And talking to the skip levels on both left me with really good feelings. These people are really nice and down to earth and just seem like cool people. I’m feeling like Microsoft is on an AI fueled rocket and Shopify is kinda finding its feet again? But I’m curious how it feels from the inside. The culture at Shopify (as expressed via the recruiter) aligns really closely with my personal beliefs. But Microsoft just seems to have infinite growth potential.
Whatever you’ve heard from your recruiter is a lie. Stay away if you have any self respect.
You should stay away from Shopify. Don't believe a word from the recruiter about the culture. Just do some research on blind, the culture used to be good before the pandemic but now it has gone downhill like you can't imagine
I 2nd that. Run.
Thirdes. Stay the fuck away from this sinking ship
I work at Shopify and I voted Microsoft. SLTs are clowns here.
A few years ago, I would have said Shopify hands down. Now though, I’d go with Microsoft.
Avoid Shopify, been here for 6 years and it’s extremely toxic, every negative review on glassdoor is correct.
TBH we have a lot of ex Microsoft in high leadership positions. Take that as you like. Company culture is good, but will greatly vary team to team. I've been in many teams in my past years and there's only one team that seriously made me reconsider my future at Shopify
You mean company culture is terrible but team culture can randomly be good?
I guess so, I've had mostly good leads so far
I was in exactly same situation( incl the sales eng part) and chose wrong. Go to msft. Don't believe what you are hearing from HM and recruiter. DM if you want to discuss.
No to Shopify
Thanks everyone. This gives me a lot of data points.
We are not joking. Seriously, I would jump to Microsoft ship today if I could.
Yeah but... what about the TC
I don’t want to out myself. The recruiters have mentioned looking here. Not taking any chances in this economy.
Lol you just did by saying that OP 😂😂