Are you working out of the Stockholm office ?
It's wlb heaven here. That said, nothing really challenging imo at Spotify. Bar to perform is low and you can get by without doing much work in a week.
You can use loose deadlines however you want. You can study new areas (we're really big on this) or help other teams. I like to attack problems in different ways until I'm happy with the solution even if I had a workable version days prior. You can also just do nothing and be lazy.
How can you get away by doing nothing ? Don’t you guys have daily standups and shit?
Yeah, it varies from team to team though. If you're doing legit work then you can just be honest about it. "Rewrote this because tech debt", "helped X team because I've had the problem before"... If you're being lazy then you have to make something up, same as any company.
Don’t work there.
Did you have a shitty experience with Spotify?
He didn’t like writing code.