Spotify Reviews

Pros

Fully trusted and given reposnibility. Interesting and challenging tasks. I leaned a lot. Easy hours. Fun environment. Perfect office location in Stockholm.

Cons

Spotify is not able to give you a full-time offer right after the internship. Depends on availability of positions when you are finishing school. Most of the office is on vacation during July.

Pros

Wages are good and pressure less work and good culture

Cons

Management policies and hr policies are bad

Pros

Best place to work. No doubt

Cons

Generally, too many people for just one, simple task.

Pros

Basically all you can read here is true: - Nice-ish offices, although the old one is not as nice - Lots of free food, I have lost weight since leaving. - Smart and friendly co-workers - Several learning/training opportunities - CV Booster: Everyone is excited to hear you worked at Spotify - Good work-life balance, although that is more a Sweden thing than a Spotify thing.

Cons

All said here is true as well: - Salary: It is average for the Swedish market, which means you will find similar offers elsewhere - Career advancement: A lot of buzzwords, process and manuals designed to obfuscate performance evaluation. The bottom line is this: If you want to advance your career at Spotify, be sure to do lots of self-promotion, and don't disagree with your managers. Even then, though, Spotify will...

Advice to Management

Be honest about yourselves, you act like a "can't do no wrong" entity, trying desperately to look good, instead of focusing on being actually good.

Pros

- amazing people and facilities - work hard, play hard attitude - connections that come from working there

Cons

- target driven sales culture means you are just a number - limited growth in sales - right budgeted = poor salary

Pros

Amazing offices with lots of fun stuff to do. You get to be a part of a big community, which is great. Awesome people that become your real friends if you want to! Afterworks, trips etc to engage in if interested. And free avocados!

Cons

Don't lose yourself in the superficial stuff like the views, free food and karaoke room. The polished exterior is all to cover up for the chaos going on on the inside. Most people won't have time and peace of mind to enjoy the recreational rooms anyways due to work overload and micromanagement. Constant re-orgs and poor management which is carried over from the startup phase and just toxic to the whole company and culture....

Advice to Management

It's time to move on, embrace change and welcome new and fresh talent to take the company to the next level. Don't let people that's been there from the start steer the ship, since it's obv not working that well. Supervise the middle management a bit more, since the employees fate is all in their hands and if they do good or not actually depends on the instructions and guidance provided from their manager. Invest more...

Pros

Flexible, dynamic, young, in a new industry

Cons

a lot of moving parts, political games, no experienced people taking major decisions

Pros

great wlb, interesting place and industry. colleagues are nice too.

Cons

things can be slow sometimes. not the strongest TC.