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      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

      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 1,762 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
      Apr 23, 2015

      Business Ops

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      perks a plenty (free concerts, free food, flexible work from home)

      Cons

      Euro-centric culture (read: work on their timezones, accommodate their vacation schedules). Somewhat arrogant culture.

      5.0
      Apr 13, 2015

      Excellent, dynamic, music

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fun place to work, always challenging

      Cons

      Learning to be a big company, always challenging

      4.0
      Mar 30, 2015

      Spotify Cares

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Spotify genuinely cares about is employees and it shows. They invest in employees with a week long "intro days" trip to Stockholm hq. The organization is relatively flat with opportunities to move laterally and try new things as well as grow your career and responsibilities. There is very little resistance from the org if you want to invest time and energy. Hack time is great and well respected by the company from the top down, including a hack day usually every 2 weeks and a full organized hack week every so often. There is a strong ethic of questioning things, even well established things and making sure that ideas still pass the test. There is some really top notch engineering talent and few people who are not at least very good engineers. Food is really good. Plenty of good options for breakfast and lunch and often there is food to be had for dinner as well and plenty of beverages, including iced coffee, espresso and a good selection of beers.

      Cons

      The technology infrastructure and client are pretty well established and a lot technology decisions are all already made. There is some pretty strong resistance to introducing new technology for fairly legitimate reasons. Spotify is really becoming a data driven company and there some excellent opportunities for data engineering. There are too many internal quirky libraries and systems that could be better served by using something open source or more standard. This seems to have been recognized and this is gradually being phased out. Benefits could be a little stronger like paid transportation and gym memberships for instance would really be nice.

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