Description
Spotify believes in never settling for the status quo. We are always focused on learning and growing.
Milestone 1
Individual Step
At this step, you are focused primarily on being a useful contributor, gaining experience and learning how to be effective on their team. It is not expected that a member of technology would remain at this step during their entire time at Spotify. At this step, your focus should be on growing so that you can support your team. This is the only step where there is an expectation that all members of technology should move toward the next step.
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Receptive to constructive feedback | Figures things out independently, but gets help when needed |
| Learn from mistakes | Brave enough to ask questions and risk appearing ignorant |
Milestone 2
Squad/Chapter Step
At this step, you are a resource for your chapter or your squad, either as a domain specialist for your team, or as a generalist/problem solver for them. You should be able to lead smaller efforts coordinating with other members of your team and drive them to completion and/or dig into tough problems and solve them independently taking in feedback from your peers and focusing on the outcome.
| Examples | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mentors less-experienced members of the team | Works with their manager to actively grow their skills, reading, partnering with more senior members of the team | Helps identify team weaknesses and suggests solutions |
Milestone 3
Tribe/Guild Step
At this step, you have an impact across squads or chapters. You are a resource for a larger group as a domain expert or generalist. You will lead cross-team (squad/tribe/chapter) efforts involving more people and drive them to completion and/or you will take on large challenges, working with diverse stakeholders in multiple teams to solve a problem that affects your larger organization.
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Actively engages In expanding their scope beyond the narrow confines of their roles, through add-ons or other educational initiative | Pro-actively gets involved in tribe & guild improvement |
| Mentoring other members of the squad, guild or tribe | Investigates new technologies or ways of working, reporting back to their squad, chapter or guild |
Milestone 4
Technology/Company Step
At this step, your focus is significantly on supporting Tech-wide or company-wide initiatives. You will Road Manage projects that span tribes and be responsible for solving Tech-wide problems, and/or you will also represent Tech in company and/or industry forums, and/or you will be a go-to person across the company to solve very complex problems
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Supports other people in the tribe and company in their domain. Actively works to "level-up" the company in their domain | May be involved in industry-wide initiatives or partner actively with outside corporate, research, open source or academic groups on Spotify areas or general industry areas |
| Involved in Tech-wide and company-wide improvement projects beyond their official role |
Milestone 5
N/A within the Spotify Career Steps Framework
Configuration Health
- ✅ Associated with 5 roles
- ⚠️ Has been referenced in no observations
- ℹ️ No one has achieved a milestone on this ability
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Role & Position Requirements
- Coachesare recommended to be milestone 1+
- Developersare recommended to be milestone 1+
- It Support Techniciansare recommended to be milestone 1+
- Product Ownersare recommended to be milestone 1+
- Quality Assurance Engineersare recommended to be milestone 1+
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