Spotify reviews

- absolutely no structure and priorities changes on a daily basis - a lot of talent leaves quickly because the company is not well-run - a lot of leadership is held over from the start-up time period and do not have much experience in big tech - low salary for a top tech company - because of the low salary hiring managers/directors is difficult--i only had a direct manager for 6 months and a director for 6ish (only 2 months of overlap). - no clear professional growth strategy, and managers are in charge of promo causing for much bias - career conversations are not really taken seriously - asked to do top level work with below average start up-level resources - lack of centralization leads to a lot of duplication and difficulty with keeping track of data, tech ownership, etc - little data used in making important company decisions

Be really careful what team you get placed on when you start. I got placed into the Financial Engineering org, which operates separately from the rest of the engineering organization. It's much closer to working at a bank than a traditional software engineering organization. Deadlines are very much done in the "waterfall" model you see in banks, rather than a normal agile sprint organization. Engineering is seen mostly as a cost center function to support financial analysts, and there's very little room for product feedback or creative input from the engineering function. As for the overall direction of the company I didn't really get it. I love the music product, but the podcast product is really terrible and is dragging down the rest of the product. All of the all-hands are the company leadership apologizing for terrible things Joe Rogan says. It's just not a place I felt proud of anymore.