How safe is your job at Spotify?
Your Engineering job at Spotify in India has a risk score of 33/100 — stable. That's riskier than 59% of the 68 tech companies we track.
The most recent reported layoff hit around 15 roles on March 23, 2026. 1 person has reported cuts here in the past 30 days.
Employee sentiment looks relatively steady based on the latest news and layoff signals.
Check the detailed report below for the full breakdown.
Current risk score
0 = safer outlook, 100 = higher layoff risk. Small figure = 7-day change.
Latest confirmed layoff
Confirmed Mar 23, 2026 · layoffs.fyi
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1 confirmed layoff event(s), 15 affected in last 180 days
15 confirmed layoffs in last 180 days — about 0.2% of the workforce
-6.7% vs estimates
Recent layoff events
Latest disclosed workforce actions affecting this company.
EPS
Est: $2.80
Revenue
EPS
Est: $2.92
Revenue
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Spotify layoff risk analysis
Spotify risk trend over the last 90 days
Across the last 83 days of scoring, Spotify's layoff risk eased 9 points, moving from 42 on June 6, 2026 to 33 today. It peaked at 43 on June 15, 2026 and bottomed out at 29 on July 29, 2026, a 14-point spread over the period. That leaves Spotify in the low-risk band today, and the size of the swing means the current reading is worth re-checking weekly rather than treating as settled.
Spotify layoff history
PinkSlip has recorded 5 confirmed layoff events at Spotify, running from March 2023 to March 2026. Together they account for roughly 1,770 disclosed roles, or about 23.9% of an estimated 7,400-person workforce. Scoring uses that share rather than the raw number, because the same headcount means very different things at a 10,000-person company and a 200,000-person one. Source: layoffs.fyi. Recent events weigh more than older ones — each decays on a half-life instead of dropping out on a fixed date — so the most recent filing on March 23, 2026 carries the most weight in today's score.
How Spotify compares to other tech employers
Spotify (SPOT) is a Music Streaming company tracked as part of the NASDAQ-100 and currently scores 33 out of 100, where 0 is the safest reading and 100 the riskiest. That is riskier than 59% of the 68 tech employers PinkSlip tracks. Over the past week the score held flat, and over the past month it climbed 3 points.
What is driving the Spotify score
Spotify's current reading is supported from two independent directions: confirmed public filings, and 1 anonymous report submitted by people in the past 30 days. Agreement between a public record and first-hand accounts is the strongest configuration the model recognises. Absence of reports is deliberately not treated as evidence of safety — a quiet company and an unobserved one look identical in public data, so the model never discounts risk for silence alone. At this level the signals do not suggest imminent action, though the score is recomputed every morning and a single filing or earnings miss can move it quickly.
Spotify layoff risk — frequently asked questions
Has Spotify had layoffs recently?
PinkSlip has tracked 5 layoff events at Spotify in the past year, the latest on March 23, 2026, totalling roughly 1,770 disclosed roles. Undisclosed headcounts are excluded from that total, so treat it as a floor rather than a full count.
How is the Spotify layoff risk score calculated?
PinkSlip blends 10+ public data sources — historical layoff events, quarterly earnings, hiring and news signals, and anonymous crowd reports — into a single 0–100 layoff risk score. Signals are weighted by how predictive they have been historically, and each one decays on a half-life as it ages rather than expiring on a fixed date — so a layoff announced last month weighs roughly twice as much as the same layoff two months earlier, and fades out gradually instead of disappearing overnight.
How often does the Spotify risk score update?
Every day. An automated job re-scrapes the public sources each morning and recomputes every tracked company's score, so the 7-day movement shown above always compares against freshly ingested data. Quarterly earnings refresh on each company's own reporting schedule.
Where does PinkSlip's Spotify layoff data come from?
The layoff events listed above are sourced from layoffs.fyi. Across all companies PinkSlip aggregates state WARN notices, layoffs.fyi, quarterly earnings filings, and layoff coverage from major business and tech outlets. Everything is public data — no employer submissions, and no paywalled sources.