Large company feel can be a drag - Anonymous employee Spotify Employee Review

4.0
Nov 3, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Team culture is strong. - Live music in the office. - Plenty of budget and resources. - Lead team is very strong.

Cons

- Organization - how we are set-up to succeed - feels like it constantly changes. Can be very chaotic and executed without thought of impact on some employees who become casualties. Recent re-org is the scariest example. - Due to being quite a large company these days spread across NYC and Stockholm, it's nearly impossible to kick off big ideas in order to get everyone's time needed to focus. As a result, there has been quite a top down innovation culture. - Political power plays are not uncommon. - Not really a performance based culture. Feels like you should more focus on cozying up to the right decision makers.

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