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- "Working from anywhere is great for people with family and living far from the office." (in 150 reviews)
- "The benefits are great and you can tell this is a company that really cares about its employees." (in 116 reviews)
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- "middle management is wildly inexperienced and offers little to no guidance on the future of product strategy or employee growth plans." (in 41 reviews)
- "Swedish salaries are low and only competitive because they pay more than any other local company will." (in 38 reviews)
- "Engineers suffer pretty bad amongst all this because their managers are inexperienced and not able to help them grow." (in 35 reviews)
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Updated Sep 23, 2023
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- 5.0Sep 22, 2023Marketing ManagerCurrent EmployeeLos Angeles, CA
Pros
remote work and fun product
Cons
pressure and cost cutting bonanza
- 3.0Sep 14, 2023Finance AnalystFormer Employee, more than 1 yearLos Angeles, CA
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-Great PTO package and paid parental leave (6 months) -You get equity -Remote work and being able to WFH 100% of the time
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This place was a hot mess. Constantly changing strategy and no answers to give lower level employees about reorganizational updates. Doing 2 rounds of layoffs in 2023 really made me lose faith in the product/brand/management. Very cliquey - if you were in the inner circle and buddy buddy with those in charge, then you made it through the layoffs. Quality employees were laid off just because they were making the highest salaries, not due to their work ethic at all. Now you have people getting promotions who were half the workers of the ones that got laid off. As a cherry on top, after the layoffs, they still hosted influencer exclusive events and music events where regular staff weren't even invited. You know one of those events could've paid for at least 10 peoples yearly salary. OK. The whole place just seems like people cosplaying as adults. Doesn't matter how hard you work; it's who you make friends with that will depend where you go in the company. And those opportunities to meet/network aren't widely available.
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Spotify has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 1,439 reviews left anonymously by employees. 77% of employees would recommend working at Spotify to a friend and 59% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -4% over the last 12 months.
77% of Spotify employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Spotify 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Spotify to be culture, benefits, coworkers and the cons to be senior leadership, management, career development.
