Spotify Software Engineer Interview Questions

Initially Iq, language, math test for online screening. Folowed up by two online screening interviews with a technical part. Four onsite interviews and an optional manager/team meeting. The entire process took about 6 months.

Super long interview process. I had to poke hr few times to get the interview booked. In the final stage (virtual onsite) the feedback were more related my lack of self confidence due to my 'nervous' way of speaking so I was rejected. When I told hr that I have a stutter, she said she would have contacted the team and the hr manager and get back to me. She also said that next time I should say that I stutter so interviewers would be empathetic. I have no words. It never happened to me to feel this kind of discrimination. Anyway hr ghosted me after this conversation. Good job Spotify, diversity and inclusion is not something you should be proud of.

Bad experience. Slow at responding, recruiter call was not as nice as other conversations with other companies esp compared to other big tech companies. Overall very bad impression of the company

There was a pretty standard screening call, after which they invited me to an hour-long technical interview, in which they asked me about my previous experience, some information security questions, and made me solve two easy coding problems. The initial feedback was positive, but before scheduling the final set of interviews they got back to me to explain that they wouldn't be able to "guarantee relocation and visa support" due to the "ongoing crisis" and put the process "on hold". I'm writing this from the country they couldn't "guarantee relocation" to.

All in all, I thought the Spotify interview process was fairly standard for the industry. I had pretty good communication throughout the process with the recruiter and the interviewers all seemed technically able and excited to answer questions about the company. I've outlined a more in-depth timeline below, but overall the process took just under 2 months from online application to offer. Detailed timeline: - I applied to a few different roles online, and heard back from the recruiter about 3 weeks later (for the first role I applied to, didn't hear back about the others) - Had a short chat with the recruiter about the role, interview process, and next steps in which they would submit my resume to a few different teams under the org the role was for. - Heard back from the recruiter about a week later that I would be moving on to the second round, which was a technical-based screening interview. I scheduled this for about 2 weeks later. - The technical screening itself was 75 minutes that had a technical background discussion where I was told to be able to discuss a recent project in technical depth and learnings. After the project overview I was asked a few java/backend domain questions which were fairly straightforward given you have industry experience. We ended with a leetcode style coding question. - Heard back from the recruiter that I passed the technical screen 2 days after. At this point we had a final round prep session and I scheduled the virtual onsite round for a week and a half later. - The onsite round itself had 4 1-hour long interviews, each with a different topic (programming/DSA, system design, values/behavioral, case study). All of the interviewers were engaged and friendly, and seemed more interested in my process/approach than quickly solving the questions. The case study round was the most interesting as it was made to simulate an oncall issue response. The system design stayed fairly high level and the programming interview was more object oriented than leetcode based. - 2 days after my onsite the recruiter reached out to me to set up a few HM calls (ultimately only one of them ended up happening) for the following week. I received an offer for the HM's team I chatted with 2 days afterward. - The offer deadline was 1 week and I accepted! My start date was set to be a week and half after my signing date.

Interview is still going, but overall all experience is terrible. First I had to reschedule, so I had to wait 3-4 days to get a link for scheduling it again. Interview itself was nice, guys were friendly and polite. And now I am waiting for already > 1 week to have a feedback, also no reply from recruiter and coordinator. Feeling like a left over. Even if I would get an offer I am going to reject it.

Spotify pretends to be OBSESSED about culture. They have a large manifesto they encourage you to read, a ton of articles about how they really want a great fit, etc. Don't be fooled. Spotify cares even less about culture fit than other big companies. Onsite: Met with 8 people in my onsite interview, only 1 of them seemed even remotely interested in the process, rest didn't seem like they wanted to be there or cared. Behavioral: I do expect the initial behavioral questions to be planned, but even the follow up questions were extremely planned and often had nothing to do with what I just said. Didn't ask any questions that would indicate they cared about fit at all. DSA: Got a hard (leetcode difficulty) question, even though recruiter told me it'd be a medium question. Definitely hardest round, at least for me. System Design: Probably depends on your interviewer but mine was actually decent, straight forward round. Kept it pretty high level Android: They didn't really know what they were doing, kept trying to push me towards practices that are outdated or even deprecated. Afterwards they were able to provide very little feedback and what they did say was pretty generic. Process was very long and kept having to bug recruiter for updates at each stage. I'd strongly encourage people not to waste their time.

interview phjone call screen,m hiring manager then team matching one ds algo and then one system design html api and then they asked how to hook up for data engineering different instances

Recruiter reached out inviting for an initial 75-minute technical interview. After being informed that I passed the interview with very positive feedback, I was ghosted for 2+ weeks and had to follow up multiple times to receive a reply. During the next call with the recruiter, I was told that the position I applied for had been offered to another candidate.

Three step process as described in multiple other reviews: recruiter screen, 75 minute technical screen, 4 one-hour interviews for the final. Really enjoyed my experience and had a great time interviewing. Only "negative" experience during the interview was doing the final programming interview - they didn't have the code samples in my chosen language so it was a bit confusing trying to understand exactly what was happening but ended up just staying in communication with my interview so it ended up okay. Declined because I had a better offer.