Spotify reviews

Low salaries in Sweden. Hard to progress to different wage slot, incremental increases are very low. Performance is expected, not rewarded. Unclear engineering mastery career progression.

Certain parts of the company have gotten to be extremely hierarchical; the legendary 'flat' organization is becoming a thing of the past. Even worse, as a technical person you could easily find yourself managed by people who have no expertise in that area. This is not true everywhere, but I have seen it in Content and Data organisations. There are a growing number of people whose jobs are to manage, organize, be 'thought leaders', or executives. Depending on which part of the company, the ratio between these people and those doing actual work can be higher than 2:1. There are also very frequent reorgs, but I suppose this is standard everywhere these days. In general, it's just becoming a little corporate...it's gotten too big. The CEO is clearly very passionate, inspiring, and has gotten us this far, but a few of his goals seem naive or idealistic. The product-centered focus that made the company great is not strong enough everywhere.