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3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,764 total reviews)
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Daniel Ek

78% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

3.9

Culture & values

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Career opportunities

3.3

Senior management

Spotify has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,764 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
2.0
Nov 6, 2018

Politics and inexperience everywhere

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Multinational company makes it a bit bearable

Cons

NYC tech office is full of politics and power hungry people. Promotions are pretty easy if you constantly brainwash upper management. This leads to junior people being promoted relatively quickly and only because they've been there for some time. And then they experiment with processes and reorgs which have no proven track record of working. Employees are rewarded for talking and face time vs impact. So if you want to succeed here regardless of your title, come with a marketing background. Engineers suffer pretty bad amongst all this because their managers are inexperienced and not able to help them grow. A bad engineer gets worse, and a good engineer never gets rewarded because he/she is busy working so much that they don't have time to craft a story for their promotion. By they time he/she realizes it, the bad engineers have been promoted. Exactly the same with Product Management, Engineering Management, Quality, VP, Directors.

3.0
Oct 9, 2014

Great people, good opportunities, mediocre technology

Engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Spotify feels motivated, yet more casual than other similar companies I've worked at. I consider my coworkers my friends, and there's a great work life balance. There's opportunity for technical growth and leadership if you're assertive. In my experience hack weeks and days are actually real and not too hard to schedule in.

Cons

Mediocre benefits compared to competitors. Mediocre technical stack with a lot of technical debt, although we are improving in this area. Highly autonomous teams can lead to poor design. Performance and compensation review process is poorly defined and hard to fathom. A lot of the less experienced technical staff drink the company koolaid and do not see its shortcomings.

3.0
Feb 21, 2023

Decent place to work - with some exceptions

Project manager
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are really top notch - monthly food stipend, mental health and fertility services, cool swag, nice offices, etc. The product is obviously very cool and something I feel a lot of people are very passionate about. I've never worked at a company before where I've personally really cared about or enjoyed the product, so that is cool.

Cons

Management is relatively a mess. Actual ownership is pretty non-existent across the board and priorities are constantly changing to the point I felt like it was pointless to even begin working on something because it would change again in a few weeks. It's definitely very clear who are the "favorites" and most of the favorites are social suck ups (sorry, don't know how to say that more tactfully). Additionally, I know Spotify is known for its WLB, but be weary as this is TOTALLY dependent on your role and org. I realize this is pretty true for most companies (not just Spotify) but one of the reasons I joined was for the advertisement of WLB. It was ironic because I have never become so burnt out in my entire career and as quickly as I have at Spotify. I'm not sure how career opportunities were back in the day, but career advancement did not even seem possible for me.

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