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I'm curious if you're actually a programmer or working in programming in any capacity? One thing here to understand is that you won't really be able to see OP's

I'm curious if you're actually a programmer or working in programming in any capacity? One thing here to understand is that you won't really be able to see OP's perspective if you haven't worked in this for at least a few years. Though I agree that there could've been a better way to handle it (OP states it), your tone sounds almost like you’re that bad manager. As a manager you’re as much a cog as anyone else, and you need to be accountable downwards and upwards. A good company understands that. Ideally it should’ve been that OP just quietly switched teams or found another job. But I’m glad that this got posted. I don’t want to work at a company that I don’t have an opportunity to criticize their internal structures with valid rational reasoning. Being fired is ok, but being marked as bad cultural fit is clearly a retaliatory move, which is not just bitter from the company but also from the HR department at Spotify, especially that no one asked OP’s colleagues. This seems like a thing in Swedish medium/big tech companies, at least from what we read about Klarna last month.

moritonal 4y ago
It used to be very easy to link my profile to my LinkedIn but it does seem that links broken, but yes, I am a quite senior dev having worked in both startup & corporate as an employee & as a contractor. Maybe I should have beeen more obvious, but the way I phrased OP's actions was to show how the Manager saw it, and sold it to HR. The crux of this is that the dev was enjoying the benefits of being a contractor but wanted the perks of being an employee. A contractor is meant to be a simple resource for a company (although it's is absolutely Spotify's fault for abusing the contractor position with things like teaching Interns as a contractor (which I think is illegal in some countries?)). To be more clear, my stance is that the employee would make a great employee, but is a bad contractor which is why Spotify blacklisted them (although it'd be interesting to know if they could apply as an employee now).

moritonal 4y ago

It used to be very easy to link my profile to my LinkedIn but it does seem that links broken, but yes, I am a quite senior dev having worked in both startup & corporate as an employee & as a contractor. Maybe I should have beeen more obvious, but the way I phrased OP's actions was to show how the Manager saw it, and sold it to HR. The crux of this is that the dev was enjoying the benefits of being a contractor but wanted the perks of being an employee. A contractor is meant to be a simple resource for a company (although it's is absolutely Spotify's fault for abusing the contractor position with things like teaching Interns as a contractor (which I think is illegal in some countries?)). To be more clear, my stance is that the employee would make a great employee, but is a bad contractor which is why Spotify blacklisted them (although it'd be interesting to know if they could apply as an employee now).