Spotify

• You get to work at a "cool" company.
• Good opportunities for learning.
• Good tech stack for the most part.
• Nice office.
• Low stress work environment.

• Promotions don't reflect the value you bring to the company. They seem to align with the number of years at your company. Put in enough years, and you will eventually get promoted.

There are a fair number of senior engineers with poor technical skills who don't contribute much to the team. On the other hand, there are juniors who contribute a lot and don't get promoted. This encourages poor performers to stay and good performers to leave.

• There is a lot of overlap amongst the teams. As a result, there is a lot of duplicate work.

• Slow-paced work environment. Feels like things never get done. It would be nice if coworkers had more drive and ambition (but this could be rephrased as a positive: "work-life balance").

• Lack of vision, although this depends on which group you are in.

It's time to "trim the fat", get rid of poor performers and give promotions/raises to high performers.