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Spotify Developer reviews

3.9

87% would recommend to a friend

(140 total reviews)
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Daniel Ek

89% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.5

Diversity & inclusion

4.3

Work/Life balance

3.8

Culture & values

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Career opportunities

3.1

Senior management

Developer employees have rated Spotify with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 140 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Spotify is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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140 reviews
2.0
Nov 7, 2014

Gliding into a tailspin

Software engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- An international melting pot for some of greatest engineers in Europe. - Diverse pool of talents, where everyone is either 10X or T-shaped. - Fascinating problems to work on, right on the intersection of Arts and Technology. - You get to attend one conference of choice a year, anywhere in the world. - Swedish benefits (parental, health, etc) and the work-life balance are really great.

Cons

- Completely inadequate compensation, with huge disparity between STO and NYC. - Bug-ridden tech stack full of tech debt. - Stock option program benefits only the upper management, with even the oldest employees left with minimal benefits. - No growth opportunities. - Irresponsible HR, mostly interested in scoring another international travel. - Cliques rule the company. - People are hired based on where they worked before, with existing talent passed over. - Hiring from big corporations affects the culture negatively. - Management responsible for the largest engineering mishaps of the past year - the Black Redesign and My Music - ends up getting promoted.

5.0
Jun 12, 2013

Fun, interesting, and fast paced

Software engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, great product, with a lot of new ideas in the pipeline. Everyone is open to ideas and suggestions, you can contributed as much as you are able to, and your are only encouraged to take on responsibility. Teams are extremely autonomous. Benefits are second to none, lunch and snacks are great! Free Beer.

Cons

Lots of teams with their own plans, coordinating timelines, releases and features is/can be a challenge. You don't always know what other teams are working on, and how far along their projects might be (there is no secrecy, you can talk to them, it's just not as transparent as it could be).

5.0
Apr 24, 2013

Greatest company I've worked for with a proven product and very awesome people with which to collaborate

Software engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Spotify is within the ideal company size range between a large, established brand and smaller, scrappier startup. You're free to take time off work to sit in on lunch and learns and other such knowledge sharing extracurricular activities/meetings but you still get to have a major influence over the product even as a new hire. Because of the Swedish culture influence you will not be ground down to ash by being overworked - it is not expected at all for one to be working at the office for greater than 8-9 hours a day - but excellence is still encouraged so going the extra mile if the individual can fit it in is met with high appreciation.

Cons

We don't have the resources of a larger company but we move slower than a startup so it can be frustrating when you see corners being cut due to time constraints or new and/or open source technologies being ignored just for the sake of building a lesser alternative in-house. We need to leverage the strengths of our developers so as to move more quickly instead of dogmatically sticking to a specific set of technologies which could very well be obsoleted within years.

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