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
1.0
Feb 26, 2020

worst career experience of my life

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- free food and beautifully designed office spaces with stunning views - highly recognizable brand, looks great on your resume

Cons

- they sell a “growth mindset” to disguise the fact there is so much disorganization, lack of process and zero accountability -interview process is plagued with bias - Random interviewers from other teams will decide your fate rather than the team members and hiring manager you would directly work with -contractors are treated as disposable -lack of training opportunities, leaving you set up for failure -politics and favoritism can ruin your career growth -company structure/hierarchy much like the day to day process is so deeply disorganized = reorg hell -high turnover everyone has been in their roles for less than a year

2.0
Oct 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Perks are amazing - free food, booze, concerts. Most of the people are nice and fun. Wonderful product.

Cons

It's so hard getting things done here. All teams, whether it's business, product, or tech, are extremely silo-ed. There's an effort to work cross-functionally, but teams just run with their projects without consulting any stakeholders. We always scramble after something goes wrong to fix it. The key is to work on a team/or for a manager with clout. People either work really hard or they're dead weights who just BS through everything.

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Spotify Response
10y
Thanks for the review. We're looking into the cons and the feedback is noticed.
2.0
Aug 27, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Beautiful offices (both in Sweden and US). Perks are great too. People in various teams are usually friendly and helpful.

Cons

Terrible politics. You won't get any work done here. As a PM, you will spend hours in unnecessary meetings created to please directors. Performance reviews are not actually based on your impact. Mostly based on how many friends you have and/or if directors and managers like you. Engineers are frustrated with the lack of direction and innovation. Cult-like environment that doesn't welcome different opinions. I spent most of my time program managing people, endless meetings just to keep people happy. A nightmare for any product manager. Tech debt is insane.

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