This makes me suspicious of Spotify. This is bad advice that could maybe apply temporarily to teams where you're not working on mission critical business work (

This makes me suspicious of Spotify. This is bad advice that could maybe apply temporarily to teams where you're not working on mission critical business work (what is left to engineer at Spotify?) I also don't like that he prefixed bad advice with "PERSONAL beliefs" as a cop-out for responsibility. This is a tactic used by people skirting ownership of ideas.