Farhan Thawar
15 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2024 by Farhan Thawar · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Dec 19, 2024
Shopify requires its interns to work in-office three days a week
“There's one, I would say one or two big differences with our intern program. One is we're making them come in three days a week. Versus full remote. And the reason for that is early, and we're doing it just in three offices right now, Montreal, Toronto, and Ot…”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Dec 19, 2024
Thawar instantly resigns without job offers when his framework is violated
“When I realize that my framework is being violated, I will resign like instantly. And I've done that before. So without even having another job or anything, I just go like, oh, my framework is being violated and then resign.”
Dec 19, 2024
Thawar: Companies without multiple projects on fire are not pushing hard enough
“I think if you don't have like two or three big projects that are on fire, you're probably not pushing hard enough because you're not really trying things that are outside of your, like, if everything's going well, are you really trying, are you really taking …”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Shopify engineering managers target 8 to 20 direct reports for flat hierarchy
“In engineering you should have between eight and, like, 20. There are definitely people who have more and people who have less, but we do try to keep things as flat as possible, because we do believe that, like, it doesn't make sense to have, like, three peopl…”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Startup job trials yielded twenty percent attrition initially but zero percent thereafter
“In the first 90 days, like, 20% attrition before 90 days, because it just didn't work out. But those, after 90 days, we had less than one percent attrition, because they knew exactly what they were getting into, and we knew exactly how they were going to fit.”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Shopify individual contributors average just three hours of meetings per week
“So we're at something like three hours of meetings per week for an individual contributor at Shopify, which is Phenomenal. Three hours a week is amazing. I think managers is not that bad. I think it's, I think I tweeted this. I think it's six or seven hours pe…”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Shopify operates 95 percent remote with intentional in-person annual summits
“So I like to call it like 90% remote or 95% remote because we have these intentionals, intentional IRL experiences. So every summer we just started last year, like, sorry, this year, we're doing this thing called Shopify summit, where we bring the whole compan…”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Thawar eliminated scheduled one-on-ones while managing 120 direct reports at Xtreme Labs
“I did two things famously. One, I had a lot of direct reports and two, I did not do any scheduled one-on-ones because you can't have a 120 direct reports and do scheduled one-on-ones cause you're never doing anything but one-on-ones. So I said, I'm going to be…”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Shopify randomly deletes all recurring internal meetings with over two people annually
“Once a year at a random time, we will delete All recurring meetings that have more than two people, so not one-on-ones, and are internal people only, so not interviews or external partner meetings. And then we have a two-week moratorium where you're not allowe…”
Dec 19, 2024 negative
Dec 19, 2024 negative
Internal data shows employee alignment degrades with distance from Shopify's CEO
“The farther you are from Toby, the, like we can see things in like the survey results, like the alignment gets out of whack. And so you do actually see that you want to be closer. You want to have a flatter org in general, and that can be achieved by just havi…”
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Two engineers pairing with an AI copilot outperforms solo AI coding
“I would still contend take that experience and add two humans together. So you've got like an AI co-pilot and humans, because what's happening is generating code and the two humans can look and say, oh, I know what it's trying to do. And either delete the code…”
Dec 19, 2024 neutral
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Thawar: Billionaire tech founders share irrational multi-decade visions for the world
“They're mostly different people, but they're similar in one thing is that they have an irrational view of what the world should look like over the next decade or so. They're very long-term thinkers, very rational in that they'll look and say, Hey, 1015, 2025 y…”