It's OK - Staff Software Engineer Spotify Employee Review

1.0
Apr 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work life balance. Very relaxed culture.

Cons

The engineering at most of the company is not that great. Not a lot of direction for more junior developers who are often given projects that are out of their experience. It also doesn't help that you self promote which generates a lot of unnecessary or hastily built applications to fulfill the requirements for promotions. This leads to a lot of terribly written software that is later abandoned by it's creator when they move to a new team.

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5.0
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Pros

Great perks and worked with incredibly smart people

Cons

frequent team re-orgs, causing disruption in workflow

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5.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It has started moving much faster than in prior years and there's a lot of emphasis on moving fast through AI. The culture is still pretty fun and it feels like you're working for a fun product

Cons

Spotify, as an app, is trying to find out what the next ten years look like for them. Right now leadership is experimenting with different directions and features so expect ambiguity and changing of scope and orgs

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