Pros: Extremely skilled colleagues, perfectly healthy work/life balance, calm Swedish environment (it's totally fine when people come late or leave early for a proper reason), no insane deadlines, very knowledgeable management and Product Owners. Cool and colorful office, free snacks and drinks, occasional music events with live bands performing. Tons of learning opportunities and technological challenges - you can switch a team and learn something new that you've always wanted. Free Spotify Premium on top of everything else :)

Cons: Open-sourcing tools built isn't in the DNA of a company. Consequently, very few teams do so. It's just of low priority for everyone, so people never really get to this. Visiting conferences may require some bureaucracy and talking about why you go, why it's important for a company, and who you go with. There's a limit of 3 conferences a year, which may be discouraging to some. High volume of written communication. Be prepared for your Slack client and Gmail inbox to practically explode with incoming messages from your colleagues and other departments. Catching up on emails is essential to stay in the loop, but I never liked doing it, as I generally consider "email time" a waste. The company doesn't encourage remote work and doesn't allow it for long periods. Even occasional WFH may be a problem. Too much relies on face-to-face communication, so being out of the office makes one disconnected from a team. Low pay, at least in Stockholm. A senior engineer's salary is only enough to keep one's family afloat, so the expectation is both parents are employed. Rent prices are very high in Stockholm (10-15K SEK a month), and lots of single people rent tiny 30-40m² apartments. A relocation package exists, but it is lower compared to other well-established companies of similar fame.

Pros: A young company, but it grows very quickly.

Cons: Some teams might have challenging work to do.

Pros: Spotify genuinely cares about its employees, and it shows. They invest in employees with a week-long "intro days" trip to Stockholm HQ. The organization is relatively flat, with opportunities to move laterally and try new things, as well as grow your career and responsibilities. There is very little resistance from the org if you want to invest time and energy. Hack time is great and well-respected by the company from the top down, including a hack day usually every 2 weeks and a full, organized hack week every so often. There is a strong ethic of questioning things, even well-established things, and making sure that ideas still pass the test. There is some really top-notch engineering talent and few people who are not at least very good engineers. Food is really good. Plenty of good options for breakfast and lunch, and often there is food to be had for dinner as well, and plenty of beverages, including iced coffee, espresso, and a good selection of beers.

Cons: The technology infrastructure and client are pretty well established, and a lot of technology decisions are already made. There is some pretty strong resistance to introducing new technology for fairly legitimate reasons. Spotify is really becoming a data-driven company, and there are some excellent opportunities for data engineering. There are too many internal quirky libraries and systems that could be better served by using something open source or more standard. This seems to have been recognized, and this is gradually being phased out. Benefits could be a little stronger, like paid transportation and gym memberships, for instance, which would really be nice.