A headache of a company, unfortunately - Anonymous employee Spotify Employee Review

1.0
Jan 31, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Benefits: maternity days, health insurance, 401k, vacation days

Cons

-Silicon Valley buzzwords in absolutely every communication. -This place is like high school. -Management issues.. They say here you get to "drive your own development," except they don't let you. -Very little structure here, so anyone at any point can say “I own this” and it’s hard to actually have a head person regulate that. There are constant power struggles. -Salary is not as high as they could pay you compared to competitors, but at least they tell you that to your face, ha! -Decisions are driven by very left-wing politics, which unfavorably enables a lot of their decision-making. This includes a posted "Guide To White Privilege". -They absolutely could increase the share of money paid out per stream given the ridiculous amount of money they blow on certain things. The marketing budgets are astronomical, and the things they spend their money on are absolutely comical. There's just tons and tons of money spent on the dumbest things.

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