Could be a great company, if you were in the right team. But also things come from above - Senior Software Engineer Spotify Employee Review

2.0
Oct 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- good work life balance - decent salary (will be lowered if you leave expensive places like london or ny) - benefits are good - nice tools like backstage

Cons

- after the layoffs it's very hard to move between teams if not impossible. Also promotions are goodbye. - proprietary tech stack, that is way behind common open source tools. Internally thing it's superior because they are famous. - middle management is cheap and does not know what they are doing. you have great engineers with product managers with 2 years of experience after a Udemy course. - big bad decisions from C level lately that made stock dip, lay off people and other terrible things. - some people take advantage of easygoing culture and literally do nothing

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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