Spotify reviews

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

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
Dec 21, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It’s cool work in a relatively trendy space.

Cons

There is no upward mobility Product Insights teams are overworked and under compensated Bad middle management Any extra or hard work does not get rewarded

1.0
Aug 11, 2021

No a Fit

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

comp, brand recognition, and big team dynamic.

Cons

micro management, not a great recruiting culture, no real leadership, no empathy, and politics.

1.0
Mar 6, 2019

The scariest and most manipulative owner I’ve encountered

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salaries are very high. Roughly 15% to 35% above average across the board.

Cons

Don’t work here. Don’t even consider it. Send a linked in message to any former employee and see what they have to say. Don’t be blinded by the money. Trust me. The culture is terrifying. The owner hires and fires people constantly. He fires people without reason and cites the state’s “at will employment” status as his only justification. To my knowledge, only 1 of the 19 people fired over my 14 months with the company was related to performance issues. The owner has a particular penchant for firing women. Of the women who worked at SS Industries the day I started, all but 2 were fired or quit by the time I was eventually fired. He even fired his personal assistant (also a woman). When I was fired, I was simply told it wasn’t working out and then HR told me the company would love to be a glowing reference for me as I applied elsewhere. It was a nightmare. Because no one ever feels secure in the job, the culture at SS Industries has a foundation of fear and paranoia. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life. Every day you dread 5pm. Every day it feels like you’re going to conclude work with a game of Russian roulette. “Will I get fired today? Let’s spin the chamber and find out.” Waking up every morning is a death march. Speaking for myself, I was fired via the blindside (the owner’s favorite tactic). I was showered with compliments the day before. I was told I was the kind of employee good businesses build around. I was told I was essential. The next day I went to a meeting in the conference room at 3pm and I was fired. I then sat there as my colleagues all walked past and saw me crying hysterically. I was the 5th blindside That occurred over the course of 14 months. The worst part ends up being the salary. Because you’re making way more money than you should based on position and experience, you get locked into your job at SS Indistries and can’t leave without taking a pay cut. Additionally, the owner famously scours job boards and LinkedIn to see if anyone on his staff might be looking for another job. So everyone is terrified to look elsewhere because you know your resume will be found by the owner of SS Indistries. I was advised to never update my LinkedIn while I worked at SS Indistries because the owner, Sam, would interpret that as me entertaining other job opportunities. SS Indistries is the worst company I’ve ever encountered.

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Spotify Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback and I apologize that your experience was upsetting. Termination decisions are difficult, not taken lightly, and are the culmination of feedback and communication of expectations. We would never want an employee to feel blindsided and are disappointed to hear that you felt that way. Those decisions are also never made by just one person and involve many conversations between the management team and HR, with occasional involvement from the owner. Also, as a company, we have spent a lot of time and energy encouraging employees to update their LinkedIn profiles. The % of women in our workforce has more than doubled in the last 14 months. Today, 17.4% of the company is female. One of our most successful salespeople is a female who has been with us for 7 years. We also had a previous female employee who left in 2018 and come back this year. The President’s personal assistant voluntarily left nearly two years ago for another opportunity. The president has personally helped multiple employees seek other employment that was a better fit. With that being said, there is always room for reflection and improvement and we will be looking into what additional changes we can make in regards to performance communication to ensure employees never feel blindsided. Thanks for the positive feedback regarding our salaries. We aim to be competitive and reward performance.
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