> AWARE: Aim, Work Back, Achieve, Reflect, Encore<p>When companies start making unnecessary acronyms, you know that they have been taken over by business types and engineering department is soon gonna be shrink rapidly.<p>Gonna be interesting to see how Shopify develops (or the opposite) over the coming 1-2 years.<p>For future reference (based on LinkedIn data), "Engineering" is currently 25% of the headcount, followed by "Support" (12%), "Sales" (8%) and "Operations" (8%).<p>Fastest growing departments this year (2021) is "Human Resources" (74%), "Support" (58%) and "Program and Project Management" (47%).