Fantastic company culture and technology - Software Engineer (Backend) Spotify Employee Review

5.0
Jan 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great working culture. Emphasis on team collaboration over individuals, and everyone can contribute to shape the company. Eagerness to adopt new technology. The strong brand attracts great engineers.

Cons

The autonomy culture enables teams, but also results in duplicate and uncoordinated efforts. Little common tooling and infrastructure. Engineering productivity is out of focus. The organisational structure makes it difficult for senior engineers to contribute beyond a local sphere of influence. Sub-market salaries.

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Spotify Response
10y
Thanks for the feedback and good advice. I'll pass these on to Lead Team!

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