Greatest company I've worked for with a proven product and very awesome people with which to collaborate
Pros
Spotify is within the ideal company size range between a large, established brand and smaller, scrappier startup. You're free to take time off work to sit in on lunch and learns and other such knowledge sharing extracurricular activities/meetings but you still get to have a major influence over the product even as a new hire. Because of the Swedish culture influence you will not be ground down to ash by being overworked - it is not expected at all for one to be working at the office for greater than 8-9 hours a day - but excellence is still encouraged so going the extra mile if the individual can fit it in is met with high appreciation.
Cons
We don't have the resources of a larger company but we move slower than a startup so it can be frustrating when you see corners being cut due to time constraints or new and/or open source technologies being ignored just for the sake of building a lesser alternative in-house. We need to leverage the strengths of our developers so as to move more quickly instead of dogmatically sticking to a specific set of technologies which could very well be obsoleted within years.
