Poor Culture - Senior Data Scientist Spotify Employee Review

1.0
Mar 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Remote work, although they're trying to tighten on that -Interesting though wrong problems

Cons

-SAFE insights team is immature with new, inexperienced management that lacks a technical background -Using contractors that they hire, fire, and wait on to renew contracts creates a lack of stability and lack of ownership among full time, who try to protect their positions -Top down decisions not backed by data and without the ability to challenge the status quo creates interesting though wrong problems that are ultimately a waste of time for DS -Losing job creates fear culture through job cuts and firing contractors -Lack of data science infrastructure for such a large company -Bottom managers busy fiddling around with Claude to try to "unlock potential" and doing useless HR organization, rather than leading and reviewing current work -Lack of mathematical edge among some analysts

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

It has started moving much faster than in prior years and there's a lot of emphasis on moving fast through AI. The culture is still pretty fun and it feels like you're working for a fun product

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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