Spotify Software Engineer II reviews

3.7

82% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)
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Daniel Ek

78% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Software Engineer II employees have rated Spotify with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Spotify is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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22 reviews
2.0
May 29, 2024

Hippocrits

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work life balance is legit. Takes a lot from Swedish values and you aren't expected to work more than 40 hours a week. On-call is done respectfully.

Cons

Not as nice a place to work after the layoffs. There's a palpable loss of trust between workers and management. HR brags publicly about internal mobility but the reality of it is that internal mobility is dead right now. There are very few positions listed internally and the ones that are listed just interview internal candidates for show and then hire externally. Work from anywhere is also a scam and on most teams it's time zone dependent.

5.0
Apr 16, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Somehow they managed to keep a very friendly and open culture, which does wonders to engineering. It's also very much bottom to top, not the other way around. Have seen some of the best examples of servant leadership in this company. From Eng Manager to VP level. Also, google Introdays. It's massive and it's awesome. Anyone working here also gets massive coolness among friends and family.

Cons

Sometimes timezones can be a little hard to work across, but that's a given with any international company. I wish they had better planning sometimes, some changes of the main northstars mean lot of restructures and letting go of people :(

5.0
Jan 30, 2024

Good culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people and a lot of engineering freedom

Cons

There are a lot of teams working on things that lacked direction

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