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

Good perks, snacks and salary

Cons

Work hard, work with truthfulness, honesty and pace

Pros

Wages are good and pressure less work and good culture

Cons

Management policies and hr policies are bad

Pros

music, less evil than fb, google, etc

Cons

lower pay, politics, favoritism, backstabbing.

Pros

Spotify attracts awesome people. The only true agile workplace I ever had.

Cons

None that I can think of

Pros

Some of the internal tooling was fun to play around with if you're a music nerd.

Cons

Working at Spotify was easily the nadir of my career. My manager basically ignored all input from everyone on the team, and didn't do much of anything in terms of providing technical leadership, or helping me with my career growth. He clearly didn't care about how long projects took to complete. Ultimately, he retaliated against myself and two other members of my team after we submitted negative feedback about him during a performance review. Spotify does just about everything possible to allow managers to retaliate against their direct reports. Feedback is not anonymized or obfuscated at all, and managers are able to read their feedback from their direct reports before writing evaluations for their direct reports. Overall Spotify seems like it has a broad spectrum of experiences. Some teams and some managers are presumably great, and you would never have a problem with them. However, the bad managers are very bad, and they're not going anywhere. My advice for anyone thinking of accepting a position here is to make sure you know who you would be reporting to, and how they run their team. If you can, try to get some input from the ICs on that team as well.

Pros

Opens up a lot doors for you Experience at a global tech company Acknowledges wellbeing and mental health in the workplace Social activities Free food

Cons

Not much career progression for creatives

Pros

- Good on-boarding process - Strong internal tools and documentation - Frequent trips to Stockholm - Healthy food and snacks (free)

Cons

- The Stockholm office is where the interesting work happens - The London office is very new, doesn't reflect the the main HQ culture - Not a good place for BIPOC. Inclusion and psychological safety issues are usually silenced or ignored. If you're a woman/BIPOC - I would strongly recommend referencing the manager and team before joining