Spotify Data Engineer II reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(88 total reviews)
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Daniel Ek

64% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Data Engineer II employees have rated Spotify with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Data Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Spotify is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Data Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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88 reviews
1.0
Mar 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Remote work, although they're trying to tighten on that -Interesting though wrong problems

Cons

-SAFE insights team is immature with new, inexperienced management that lacks a technical background -Using contractors that they hire, fire, and wait on to renew contracts creates a lack of stability and lack of ownership among full time, who try to protect their positions -Top down decisions not backed by data and without the ability to challenge the status quo creates interesting though wrong problems that are ultimately a waste of time for DS -Losing job creates fear culture through job cuts and firing contractors -Lack of data science infrastructure for such a large company -Bottom managers busy fiddling around with Claude to try to "unlock potential" and doing useless HR organization, rather than leading and reviewing current work -Lack of mathematical edge among some analysts

5.0
Mar 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generous benefits Good compensation for area 30+5 days of vacation in sweden

Cons

Honestly can't come up with much. Some teams are a bit hit and miss in scope.

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