Horrible management practices - Anonymous employee Spotify Employee Review

2.0
Feb 18, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- great people at the non-director level, everyone is open-minded and passionate about their jobs - great culture and office

Cons

- the HR team structure is ridiculous and the people in management roles does not have strong values (they talk the talk but would not walk the walk and will not stand up to do what is right and fair) - the compensation and performance management structure does not make sense (salary reviews are not tied to performance)

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