Challenging, frustrating and a lot of fun. - Software Engineer Spotify Employee Review

4.0
Mar 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of smart people to learn from and force yourself to become better, tons of responsibility and freedom in the projects you work on. Very flat organization and decentralized decision making. Very challenging scalability problems. If you love music it's great to work on improving and scaling a product that you use yourself every day.

Cons

Sometimes chaotic due to lack of central coordination and very fast growth, struggling with figuring out how to grow and scale the organization and experiencing a lot of growing pains. Employee benefits could be better.

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5.0
Jul 19, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits and quality of life

Cons

Easy to get lost in the size of the company. Always a "what if" after large layoffs.

3.0
Jul 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, ok work life balance, trips to sweden, strong engineers

Cons

Pay is lowish, management needs a lot of improvement,

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