Pros: The work-life balance is excellent. Upper management is transparent and honest. Compensation is good (but not as good as other big tech companies). The NYC office is beautiful, and the food program has gotten so much better over time. Spotify is overall a great place to work if you have or are starting a family. The parental leave program is second to none, and they're extremely supportive as you reintegrate back into the office.

Cons: If you care solely about maximizing compensation, then Spotify might not be for you. You'll make more at any of the big tech companies, but likely the work-life balance will be poor. Reorgs are also a way of life here, often times unnecessary. There can also be a lot of politics and backstabbing at the mid-management level.

Pros: Fly you to Sweden for intro days.

Cons: People were pretentious and social climbers... not all of them.

Pros: Great work-life balance. You get to travel a lot (hit or miss if you're into that; personally for me, Stockholm gets old). Pay is mid-tier. Still great if you're comfortable knowing most SWEs at other tech companies make more than you. Great insurance, vacation policy, and parental leave.

Cons: With great work-life balance and autonomy comes some seriously unmotivated employees who take forever to get anything done. Maybe it's because the hiring bar has seriously lowered, or maybe it's because there's no bonus structure, combined with the fact that Spotify will probably not fire you as long as you push some code and are a fun/nice person. Regardless, at some point, you're going to realize you spend 40 hours a week at work and would like to spend most of it NOT trying to motivate underperforming teammates to actually code, and NOT dealing with process-heavy and debilitating consensus-driven product decisions that get trashed in 6 months because you're re-orged to some other part of the company. Spotify is honestly great if you're a parent or just want to coast because they expect so little from you. That said, if you're ambitious and find satisfaction from actually building great products with hardworking and innovative teammates, I'd refrain from coming here.