J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Spotify (Stockholm, ) en avr. 2022
Entretien
I had an initial meeting with the recruiter about the role and the company and everything seemed good. We booked my first technical interview with two engineers that lasted for about 70 minutes. I did well and the recruiter contacted me again to schedule the last interviews. I replied with times that would work for me. No reply...
A couple days later I sent another email in case the recruiter somehow missed my first response.
No reply...
About a week later I decided to make a last effort and sent another response in a separate email.
No reply...
I spent a lot of time and energy preparing and focusing on doing well in these interviews and I don't even get shown the common courtesy of a response back. These recruiters are so unprofessional and reflect really bad on Spotify as a company. I would not consider Spotify based on my experienced with their recruiters and interview processes.
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Question 1
What happens to a request when you hit enter in a web browser?
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 jour. J'ai passé un entretien chez Spotify (Londres, Angleterre)
Entretien
I had an intital interview, but I knew I would fail, The recruiter seemed disinterested and moody like tired. I got asked the typical questions like salary and stuff, but I knew I was going to fail the interview due to the above.
I think if I had a different more professional interviewer I would have passed.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Spotify (Londres, Angleterre) en avr. 2025
Entretien
I had 3 rounds:
1. Phone screening with hiring manager: my background, feedback culture. Fairly standard.
2. Technical screening with 2 engineers: tell in depth about one of my recent projects, general technical questions (TCP/UPD, DNS, etc). One easy LeetCode problem.
3. 4 interviews on last stage: values, algo & ds, system design, case study.
Values - normal set of values/behavioral questions that should be answered with STAR.
Algo & DS - 1 medium LeetCode problem.
System Design - basic system design task, not complex system.
Case study - debug previously occurred production incident.
Interview process was good, hiring manager kept me updated during whole process and helped a lot. Interviewers were great and friendly, I did not feel like it was "gotcha" type of interviews, but rather they genuinely tried to know more about me.
My advice: clearly explain and speak aloud your thought process on technical interviews, and prepare STAR format answers for most commonly asked values questions in advance and memorize your answers.
1 phone screen, and onsite 1 technical, 1 system design, behavioral, and case study. All leetcode style. Traditional. They are very slow however. They will compare you with other candidates and get all the feedback at once. It's an employers market most definitely.
