Ex-Spotify staffer: the squads model everyone copies wasn't even used
TejasKumar_ · x · 2026-10-13
An X user argues that Spotify's famous "squads and chapters" org structure, widely copied by others, doesn't actually work — and that Spotify itself wasn't even using it at the time. The author says this was part of why he left, and links to more detail.
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