Spotify Reviews

Pros

Flexible, dynamic, young, in a new industry

Cons

a lot of moving parts, political games, no experienced people taking major decisions

Pros

Free food and beer in the US offices

Cons

Lacks technical focus. Not a place to grow as a technical contributor. Will teach you all you need to know about PC culture.

Advice to Management

Stop wasting engineering talent. Let them do what they do best.

Pros

The people that work here are smart and wonderful, and it's great to get to work on a product beloved around the world. Unparalleled work-life balance and excellent benefits. The company is also very transparent (it's easy for anyone at the company to learn what strategic priorities are).

Cons

Frequent disruptive reorgs, little room for professional growth (people are brought in from the outside rather than being promoted from within), and major growing pains

Advice to Management

Frequent reorgs are much more disruptive than management realizes. Also, when people complain about poor management, they're not necessarily complaining about new mid-level managers... Failing to promote ICs into manager roles is not going to fix complaints about poor management and contributes to ICs feeling like they have little growth potential at Spotify

Pros

Great brand, flexible lifetsyle, beloved product.

Cons

Hard to get ahead out of Stockholm office, little opportunity for advancement in career within the company.

Pros

Benefits, lots of fun travel, and well respected brand and product

Cons

For all the hype from the outside, it can verge on being a s*show from the inside. Too many divisions trying to split work and take credit means lots of infighting and documents galore. And when things don't work, re-orgs kick in and the cycle restarts.

Advice to Management

Change isn't bad but we need clarity and support, not more change.

Pros

Great people and talent, cool product. CEO is strong and has a vision.

Cons

Moves incredibly slow, extremely safe / no risk taking, need 100% consensus to make even the smallest decisions. Very frustrating environment to get anything done. With Apple being the #1 competitor, I don't see the company succeeding as it's currently run. Things are way too lax and the fire just isn't there.

Advice to Management

Bottom-up doesn't work for a company this size. It's time to grow up, you're not a tiny startup anymore.

Pros

Flexibility and fun colleagues, and a great mission to help better the world of music!

Cons

Terrible management, terrible pay, and terrible work environment in terms of career mobility, salary, and ability to work well in a cross-functional enviroment.

Pros

None at all, zero, nada

Cons

everything, this place really sucks

Advice to Management

Being nice to your employees would be a great start. There is no transparency and so many people are not qualified to have the position they are in.