Blog posts about Culture

When I joined Shopify last year, I knew its engineering culture was top class. What I didn’t know was the company’s d...

The Shopify CLI (command line interface) is an essential tool for developers when building and deploying Themes, Apps...

VCR is a Ruby library that records HTTP interactions and plays them back to your test suite, verifying input and retu...

It’s been around two and a half years since Shopify transitioned to become a fully remote-first company. A lot has ch...

What do you do with a finite amount of time to deal with an infinite number of things that can go wrong?  We prepare...

As a developer based in Singapore, I spend most of my time working with team members who are in time zones roughly ni...

A friend of mine used to get into heated debates all the time. This was before Twitter—well before. Now when you talk...

Pair programming is one of the most important tools we use while mentoring early talent in the Dev Degree program. It...

By Matt Bowen, James Lockhart, Cecilia Hunka, and Carlos Pereira When the new widget announcement was made for iOS 1...

By Carlos Pereira, James Lockhart, and Cecilia Hunka When the iOS 14 beta was originally announced, we knew we neede...

As technical folk, we sometimes hear about “how to do business with other cultures.” But what about “how to code with...

During my engineering career, I made a choice to leave the Individual Contributor (IC) track and move into a technica...

I think a lot about examinations and how they don’t end, even after you’re done with school. Performance reviews at w...

The interview process can be one of the most daunting aspects of finding a new gig—but it doesn’t have to be. Our rec...

I had been in the same engineering org for seven years before the pandemic hit. We were a highly collaborative and co...

With Avanti Ketkar and Maria Robledo "Here's your laptop, a link to all the documents and content, and the team you'...

RailsConf held an in-person conference for the first time in two years, taking over the Oregon Convention Center in P...