Leadership has no idea what they're doing - Senior Machine Learning Engineer Spotify Employee Review

3.0
12 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work/life balance Playful culture Tenure

Cons

Beyond technically incompetent leadership IC career trajectory completely determined by politics and playing the game of thrones IC trajectory is just management but with a different title Spotify has nothing but constant fomo of other big tech companies and does nothing technically interesting Middle-of-the-road compensation

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

Spotify, as an app, is trying to find out what the next ten years look like for them. Right now leadership is experimenting with different directions and features so expect ambiguity and changing of scope and orgs

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