Spotify

• Good work-life balance.
• Decent salary (will be lowered if you leave expensive places like London or NY).
• Benefits are good.
• Nice tools like Backstage.

After the layoffs, it's very hard, if not impossible, to move between teams. Also, promotions are gone.

Proprietary tech stack that is way behind common open-source tools. Internally, they think it's superior because they are famous.

Middle management is cheap and does not know what they are doing. You have great engineers with product managers with two years of experience after a Udemy course.

Big bad decisions from C-level lately that made the stock dip, lay off people, and other terrible things.

Some people take advantage of the easygoing culture and literally do nothing.

Change radically at C-level, make moving internally easier as it used to be, and spend more on managers with experience.