Here’s part 1 of short animated video describing our engineering culture. This is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, and there’s a lot of variation from squad to squad. So the stuff in the video isn’t all true for all squads all the time, but it appears to be mostly true…

Source: Spotify engineering culture (part 1) - Labs

Here’s part 2 of the animated video describing our engineering culture. Check out part 1 first if you haven’t already seen it! This is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, so the video is somewhere between “How Things Are Today” and “How We Want Things To Be”.

Source: Spotify engineering culture (part 2) - Labs

Definitely something to aspire to. I’ve done a number of the practices they describe and I can attest that they go a long way towards reducing friction.