Spotify Career Development FAQ

Pros

Amazing culture, great growth opportunities and dynamic work.

Cons

covid 19 has hindered the full employee experience.

Pros

Flexible work, great culture, lots of learning opportunities

Cons

Company is going increasingly remote, uncompetitive salaries

Pros

Benefits (access to discounts and perks, daily meal stipend, educational resources), strong and authentic culture, smart and cool people, mentorship opportunities, access to employee resource groups, responsive HR, many high-growth areas, and opportunities to learn

Cons

Org structure can be confusing, the company is in a rapid growth stage (which I love but may not be for everyone), compensation is slightly lower than big tech firms

Pros

Autonomy in day to day tasks, laid back culture, good work life balance

Cons

The company is going morally bankrupt for what they believe will make them more profits. I took this job because I thought they were the only company of this size that was neutral or good even, but they have effectively gutted some ERGs and are failing to explain why certain content doesn't violate content policies. I've been a part of several reorgs over the past year. I read that before I started and thought it couldn't be that bad but it can really affect you ability to grow in your career if your manager or skip level keeps changing. I've had two coworkers at the company who have left or were terminated because of bad managers. The quality of manager to manager can vary greatly. I suppose that's always the case but it's disappointing when there is no recourse.

Advice to Management

Figure out how to have a long term strategy that doesn't involve hosting exclusive hateful content. Stop doing so many reorgs. Just pick a strategy and stick with it. See the value in keeping teams together and modify what they work on maybe, it's destructive and it doesn't make any sense. Bureaucracy is getting in the way of logic. Figure out a feedback system that will get bad managers help or weed them out. You're losing good talent because of bad communication and ego.

Pros

It’s cool work in a relatively trendy space.

Cons

There is no upward mobility Product Insights teams are overworked and under compensated Bad middle management Any extra or hard work does not get rewarded

Advice to Management

Instead of focusing on hiring thousands of new people, focus on actually retaining the ones you already have