Solid teams but limited career growth opportunities - Senior Data Scientist Spotify Employee Review

3.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stock growth is good. R&D team and ML team is solid.

Cons

Base pay is not high compared to tech companies. Some higher level managers have their positions due to relationships rather than capabilities. Majority of data scientists at the company are data analysts. Career growth is the worst at Spotify, most times you have to wait for someone with higher title to leave to get promoted by taking their role.

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great team morale and work styles

Cons

Sadly impacted by company layoffs

5.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
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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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