Spotify reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,762 total reviews)
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Daniel Ek

78% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Spotify has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,762 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Spotify employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Mar 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- You get to work at a "cool" company - Good opportunities for learning - Good tech stack for the most part - Nice office - Low stress work environment

Cons

- Promotions don't reflect the value you bring to the company. They seem to align with the number of years at your company. Put in enough years and you will eventually get promoted. There are a fair number of senior engineers with poor technical skills and don't contribute much to the team. On the other hand, there are juniors who contribute a lot and don't get promoted. This encourages poor performers to stay and encourages good performers to leave. - There is a lot of overlap amongst the teams. As a result, there is a lot of duplicate work. - Slow pace work environment. Feels like things never get done. It would be nice if coworkers have more drive and ambition. (But this could be rephrased as a positive, "work-life-balance") - Lack of vision, although this depends on which group you are in.

4.0
Mar 28, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Company has the right mission. 2. People are generally nice and want to do the right things. 3. It's a wonderful product that I've loved and continue to love 4. Free snacks, lunch and great medical benefits 5. Work life balance is amazing

Cons

1. There is a lack of accountability overall and the compensation structure doesn't reward innovation, leadership or excellent execution. 2. There is a serious lack of product and engineering leadership, specially within the Free Mission

2.0
May 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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