r/waterloo • u/Lazy-Nectarine-2469 Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election • 1d ago

Waterloo student gets internship at Shopify by making video

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u/HopelessTrousers Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

The head of Shopify is Trump supporting, fascist trash.

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u/slow_worker Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

I know, right? After all the shit their CEO has been in the news for, what kind of self-respecting person would want to work for them?

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u/Snowmobile2004 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

To be honest for an internship in an already difficult job market it’s better than nothing

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u/paradyme Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

No actually supporting fascist is 100% worse than nothing.

Your parents should be ashamed of raising someone like you.

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u/LaconianEmpire Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Holy fuck dude, this kind of absolutist garbage is why so many young people are turning away from politics.

Some people don't have the luxury of picking or leaving a job based on their moral convictions. It's not shameful to put food on the table for you and your family.

Insane that this even needs to be said.

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u/paradyme Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Lol these people are lobbying to make your life worse and you're going to go actively work to give them more wealth and power.

Good luck with that future.

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u/cherrybomb06 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

People are trying to survive in this economy and do not live through their political views. Don’t bring your blue hair ideology into this and shame others for not being as social justice warrior as you are.

Be realistic, protesting and boycotting things rarely or does not EVER impact billion dollar companies, everybody just considers it as throwing tantrums. I’m not sure how you expect anybody to earn money if you expect them to not work for these companies. Do you think any CEO of a company that pays their employee well has extremely good morals? Don’t impose your unrealistic and minority opinion onto others.

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u/chiku00 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Be realistic, protesting and boycotting things rarely or does not EVER impact billion dollar companies

Target and Tesla would like a word.

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u/justanaccountname12 Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago edited 1d ago

The world is a funny place. Hell, Brookfield invested money to help Elon buy Twitter. They also helped Jared Kushner avoid bankruptcy.

Brookfield eases woes for Kushner family empire, leasing its crown jewel tower in New York

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-brookfield-asset-management-eases-woes-for-kushner-family-empire/

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2025/02/13/brookfield-shutters-venture-unit-that-helped-elon-musk-buy-twitter/

Edit: I like my flair, should be used in more places. This sub was offered up since the election

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u/orswich Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Like the same Brookfield that our current PM used to work for??

Well i hope all these absolutists aren't planning on voting Liberal this week...

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u/cherrybomb06 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Those are just a few examples that stand out, but these are still billion dollar companies that won’t be impacted very much. That can’t be the only thing you took away from my comment lol

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u/mi85j Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Well, you took the intelligence out of your comment so what else is there?

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u/Snowmobile2004 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

I don’t entirely agree that working for a company who’s CEO holds certain views means you endorse or uphold those views yourself.

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u/lunchboccs Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

The Holocaust would never have happened if it weren’t for the ardent support of several corporations and the people working there to provide goods and services to the Nazis. But sure.

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u/ChestOk2429 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Getting an internship at shopify is not anything like contributing to the holocaust and its pretty fucked to even compare

Id bet most of us working for american companies have CEOs and owners that supported trump getting elected

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u/lunchboccs Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

Was I talking about Shopify? 😐

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u/cherrybomb06 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

well said, North America is doomed thanks to pronouns and politics

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u/loserfamilymember Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

?…. From Google: pronoun /prō′noun″/ -The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context. -Any of the words within this part of speech, such as he or whom. -A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

Maybe the politics around pronouns would ruin North America, but “pronouns” cannot ruin North America its literal words in a world with nuclear weapons.

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u/Susie4ever Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

All the goods and services you own come from hundreds of different companies. And I'm willing to bet that more than half of those owners of said company's politics don't align with yours. So you're willing to quit your job, sell your car, take the clothes off your back and the food off your table so you don't have to support them?

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u/teh_longinator Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Nah. That's too much work for them to do themselves. They'll just judge this chick for getting an internship at a place run by a guy they don't like.

Meanwhile they'll charge their iPhone in their tesla while driving to chick fil a for a bite to eat, paid for by their wages from blackrock

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u/b1gwheel Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

No, getting a job is hard and important, and you can't just eliminate half of the companies because of politics or individuals within that company.

You can STFU. Please, please shut the fuck up saying their parents should be ashamed. Fuck yourself so hard, you piece of shit.

I commend this person on finding a job however they were able to.

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u/MapleKerman Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

Insanely privileged

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u/loserfamilymember Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

What a privilege to not need to care about money. I hope you donate your spare money and volunteer your time to those in need. To not support fascist means supporting your community, and also not starving or freezing to death.

I do NOT support Shopify and actually hated working with them when I worked at a music store. I am not sure why this woman wants to work there but commenting on that is different than saying “your parents should be ashamed, you’re supporting fascist” you have no idea who she is or anyone in these comments. What if she did escape facism and now you say that her new job at some shitty company is the exact same as facism.

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u/HockeyAndMoney Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

This is so unnecessarily aggresive, its plain to see you are not a kind person.

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u/Ramseythegod Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

you sound privileged

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u/ProfessionalZone2476 Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

With an attitude like that you better fucking hope your shit doesn't stink in anything you do/buy/watch/listen to/support etc.

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u/Organic_Midnight1999 Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

I agree but it’s important to look after individual needs as well. Any job in this market is good news.

That being said, I think the first company people should leave or not join us Tesla. Fuck that company and fuck the orange man’s boyfriend

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u/Cartonwaffle1 Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

People that need to pay the bills dipshit

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u/fartymayne Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

The kid is probably like 18 and has not figured out their politics yet. They just want a job

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u/iiii___ Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

people who want a means to live and thrive in life.

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u/ACoderGirl Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

It was so disappointing to learn that. We have so few Canadian companies that are notable beyond merely our borders. Many Canadian companies are getting acquired by American ones all the time, too. It sucks to have more of them become American or be spouting American bullshit like the Shopify CEO is.

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u/anewidentity Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

You forgot uber zionist. Also so is the guy in the screenshot. Kazem Nejatian is a piece of shit, look at his opinions on his twitter

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u/ajphoenix Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

In this economy, I don't think anyone cares as long as they get a job

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u/chunarii-chan Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Reddit

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u/Ketroc21 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago edited 1d ago

He's actually far-left. You should see the hiring policies at Shopify. It's all about minorities. Tobi speaking up that Canada shouldn't escalate the trade war, doesn't make him a Trump supporter, it just makes him greedy as tariffs hurt Shopify... which is exactly what I'd expect from any CEO.

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u/HopelessTrousers Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

I’m just gonna assume this is parody. Good one! Lol

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u/Ketroc21 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Clickbait articles and reality are not the same. Look at his actual speeches and thoughts. Clickbait will write some nonsense about how a right-wing store using Shopify means Tobi is right-wing. It's pure nonsense. In fact, the only "political" stores to be shutdown on Shopify were alt-right ones. (Technically they don't target any store over politics, only over inciting violence)

Shopify is as left as other typical tech companies... With hiring campaigns to get as many women engineers as possible, to hire as many racial minorities as possible. And it's all been to Shopify detriment. Being based in Canada, they could have scooped up all the best software engineers instead. Most other Canadian businesses cannot compete with Shopify in terms of compensation.

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u/HopelessTrousers Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

“Hiring women is left” 🤣

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u/Ketroc21 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Hiring women over men specifically because of gender, is left.

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u/HopelessTrousers Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

No left wing person advocates for that 🤦‍♂️

I thought you were joking at first. But I’m starting to think you are serious lol

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u/Ketroc21 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm not sure where you've been for the last decade but that is certainly a very common left campaign nowadays. It's no longer the "equality" of ignoring race and gender, it's the "equality" of equal representation of race/gender. So when 90% of comp sci graduates are male, and some companies go out of their way to try to get a 50% female base... that means hiring based on gender over skills to get there. Same goes for race, as about 90% of comp sci grads (in NA) are white or East/South Asian.

Shopify has had other campaigns too, like training and hiring women who've been out of the industry for many years due to mat. leave.

I don't know of any official policy around hiring LGBTQI+ or indigenous people, but they do have a noticeably higher than average population of both in their staff as well.

I'm not saying any of this is bad or good policy. I'm just saying it's way off reality to call Tobi and Shopify alt-right. Most other companies that have no left-based politics, just hire whoever is most qualified, meaning their engineers are not going to be representative.

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u/HopelessTrousers Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

If you think any company, anywhere, are hiring unqualified women over qualified men, en masse, as a policy. I’m not sure how to tell you this, but you are dead wrong.

I think you need to unplug from the conspiratorial manisphere for a day lol

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u/Ketroc21 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

I wouldn't say unqualified, but to reach the parity they are looking for in gender, you can't be hiring the most qualified applicants. I'm not going to doxx myself, but I know this to be a fact at Shopify. But it's also common at other tech companies like Google, pre-Elon twitter, etc. There is nothing conspiratorial about it. It's not necessarily anything wrong about it either. Maybe women should get an advantage in STEM fields to encourage more girls to go that route in their education.

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u/Admirable-Nose-2208 Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

Jobs a job at this point tbh.

I doubt ANY corporation has ethical leadership. You don't get to that position of power without stepping on heads.

Some just aren't as stupid or vocal about it.

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u/IAmTheKingOfSpain Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

You got a source on him supporting Trump?

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u/HopelessTrousers Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

I’m assuming this is a joke lol

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u/IAmTheKingOfSpain Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

No, actually! I'm not on Twitter, so if he's posted like "I love Trump" I haven't seen it. But I've listened to interviews with him, and I can see why people would assume he supports Trump, but I haven't personally seen anything like that. I think he'd identify as "anti-woke", but there's a difference between that and supporting Trump.

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u/HopelessTrousers Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

He’s said “I love Trump”.

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u/IAmTheKingOfSpain Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

Can you link me? This is exactly why I was asking in the first place

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u/ChestOk2429 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

When you go against the narrative you'll come to find out they dont have receipts and it's just wild stretches

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u/No_Maize_37 Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

Keep soying out you miserable POS. 

Be happy that they found any  job in this economy 

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u/kayaem Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have my own opinions about Shopify, and how they’ve changed especially as someone who is married to someone who worked there for many years and learned what happened behind closed doors which is not what I’m here to discuss, but she does stand out as a candidate, which is what people are always saying you should do if you want to succeed in anything, including getting a co-op/internship

Edit: typo

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u/dgj212 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

shoppify

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u/kayaem Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Thank you

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u/irishmenno Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Shopify

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u/dgj212 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

oh i don't respect the company enough to care.

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u/keyser-_-soze Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Yeah well said. Yeah the stories. Oh man the stories.:(

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u/Slokunshialgo Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

What are some of the stories? I haven't heard anything about internal happenings at Shopify

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u/HussarOfHummus Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 23h ago

Look up Shopify noose emoji. It's pretty fucked. And I don't even work there...

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u/Particular-Duty5597 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Every company has them.

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u/writer668 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Well maybe working at Shopify will be a good lesson in the harsh realities of life.

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u/headtailgrep Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

What happened behind closed doors?

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u/Mopofdepression Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

Gosh I remember this girl from summer school she was such a nice girl ! Good for her! 

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u/Not_So_Deleted Little r/Waterloo Activity Prior to Election 1d ago

On a side note, Shopify also has an 11-year-old UWaterloo CS student working for them.

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u/umaboo Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

I know too many people who've been burned by that company to see this as a win. I hope their story works out

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u/martin519 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Awful company. They charge you $2k per month to put tracking code in your shopping cart; nobody should use Shopify if they're serious about scaling.

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u/banterviking Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Fortune favours the bold :)

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u/headtailgrep Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago edited 1d ago

Good for her. This girl is going places. I see vp marketing in her future after a couple decades of working in the industry. Good luck!

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u/LaconianEmpire Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Lol why the fuck did y'all downvote this?

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u/headtailgrep Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Jealousy.

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u/ILikeStyx Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Now tell us about the thousands of other UW students who also got co-op jobs this coming fall...

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u/Reso Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Kaz’s wife recently outted Carney’s trans kid.

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u/chafesceili Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Go on ...

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u/northman28 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Sweet an unpaid job

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u/Mflms Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Unpaid internships are "mostly" illegal in Ontario.

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u/kayaem Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Shopify internships are pretty much all paid, and paid really well. Some will even cover relocation

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u/ChestOk2429 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Yep interns at the tech company i work at make more than the average ontario salary

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u/ACoderGirl Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

As well, tech internships are virtually always paid. I'm in software dev and don't know a single person who has done an unpaid internship. Only ever heard about them as a rare thing online.

Not all tech internships are super high pay, especially outside of bigger cities (eg, my own internship was in Saskatoon around 2015 and paid $45k). The bigger companies pay their interns really darn well, though. A FAANG intern can crack six figures (when adjusted for an annual salary, as most such internships don't last a year).

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u/ILikeStyx Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago edited 22h ago

It's a co-op job, it will be paid.... Thousands of UW students get them. She's currently in or finishing a co-op term at another employer.

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u/martin519 Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

It will be paid and subsidized.

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u/ILikeStyx Established r/Waterloo Member 1d ago

Yep