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I don't know the job posting that the author had read, or what guided their expectations, but here is a current Shopify Senior Frontend Engineer job posting: h

I don't know the job posting that the author had read, or what guided their expectations, but here is a current Shopify Senior Frontend Engineer job posting: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wxk6Q4tNoNgJ:https://www.shopify.ca/careers/senior-frontend-software-engineer-remote-americas_ce1e5b1e-cc60-498e-a175-f2aba5cc4afe+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-b-d https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wxk6Q4... This job posting sounds like it lines up with author's experience at the company, and knowing Shopify is a Rails-heavy company, I would safely assume most Shopify postings look similar to this. I don't think author was bait-and-switched, author just didn't get what they _wanted_. Note: providing a google cache link since I don't know when the posting will expire

hardwaregeek 5y ago
> You’ll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices. If I read this, I'd think that I'm going to be doing "modern front-end", which is usually a React SPA connected to a back-end API via REST or GraphQL. The inclusion of GraphQL and Apollo on this list does mean that I'd be surprised if my work was primarily server rendered ERB templates. I think there's a bit of a bias here because many people on HN don't like modern front-end. Yes, yes, ERB templates are just fine. But they're not the same as a modern JS stack and if you're looking to gain expertise in a JS stack, they're clearly not helpful.