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Senior Data Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Spotify for 4 years
March 24, 2024
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good pay.

Flexible work schedule / work life balance.

Chance to work adjacent to the music industry.

Cons

No opportunity for advancement whatsoever.

Constant reorganization.

Very political environment, poor management.

Everyone is just following their nose in management, where developers have to pick up the slack.

If you start to shine, you are targeted and marginalized.

Not a good environment for innovation.

No job security.

Chaotic environment, lack of collaboration amongst teams.

Moving goalposts and wasted effort.

No internal mobility since layoffs, in spite of the fact that they argued that it would come as a result of it.

Advice to Management

Completely replace all the management; it is almost universally clueless.

Give your engineers a chance to move up into management to pick up the slack; they actually know what's going on, possibly even know the industry better.

Make bold moves; stop making safe bets, which will land you gradually stepping to your grave.

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