I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Mar 2017
Interview
Technical phone screen consisted of a product sense round and a coding round. Both were fairly straightforward, coding round was very easy. Product sense was around metric movement analysis. Read product sense blogs to help prepare for this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you advise the product team to do if we are launching a new product but are seeing a decline in usage metrics? Would you continue with launching the product?
I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2026
Interview
So, At first it was HR interview, After that a technical interview (SQL and Python - 2 questions each) and a long code of SQL that needed to be explained.
After that. I had an interview with Hiring Manager and a case study in the last round. It had 4 rounds in total.
The hiring manager started the first round interview with "I'm gonna get ahead of this but based on your experience I don't think it's a good fit." Huh?? Then why do the interview in the first place? this wasn't even a referral? They were dismissive the whole interview and I couldn't wait for it to end. Also mentioned the role wouldn't be technical which tells me the JD was misleading. Additionally, the pay is below average for the level of experience they were requiring. Overall, not worth it - especially if the interview would be indicative of management style.
Had a first round interview with a recruiter, questions were about examples of A\B testing, a visualization dashboard, and once we worked on performance metrics. Interview rounds are 5 one online coding, a hiring manager, a case and presentation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A\B testing, Dashboards, screen coding, case presentation
