Back in early 2021: > As the newest senior leader on Shopify’s engineering team, Polinsky will lead Shopify’s efforts to build its e-commerce infrastructure an

Back in early 2021: > As the newest senior leader on Shopify’s engineering team, Polinsky will lead Shopify’s efforts to build its e-commerce infrastructure and will lead the company’s efforts to double its engineering team in 2021 by hiring 2,021 new technical staff. [0] > “Engineering hiring is probably the biggest limiter to Shopify’s growth,” Harley Finkelstein [President of Shopify] said in an interview after the results. The company had hoped to hire 2,021 new engineers this year and current conditions mean “obviously, it’s hard to do that,” he said, without disclosing the number that have been hired. A tight market for talent is a worry for many industries but none more so than technology. Universities are not producing enough new engineers and the entire sector is competing for graduates, Finkelstein said. [1] As of today they only have 10 open positions in the "Engineering & Development" department, the majority of which are for Staff/Tech Leads. [2] Perhaps it would behoove Shopify to put a bit more thought into their hiring strategy; rather than just wanting to inflate engineer numbers as a vanity metric via jingly campaigns (2021 on 2021). "Just a number on the page". [0] https://techcouver.com/2021/01/06/shopify-to-double-engineering-team/ https://techcouver.com/2021/01/06/shopify-to-double-engineer... [1] https://archive.ph/RMzlm https://archive.ph/RMzlm [2] https://www.shopify.com/careers/search?search%5Bkeywords%5D=&search%5Bteams%5D%5B%5D=engineering https://www.shopify.com/careers/search?search%5Bkeywords%5D=...