Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Spotify with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 43 days to get hired, when considering 57 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Spotify overall takes an average of 39 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Spotify as a Data Scientist according to 57 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
Presentation: 21%
One on one interview: 18%
Group panel interview: 9%
Skills test: 9%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Aug 2016
Interview
Submitted an application via the Spotify careers page. A recruiter then contacted me to complete a take-home applied data assignment within a week. The assignment was basically just "do something" with a pretty well known (and well worn) publicly available data set (which has nothing to do with music).
After spending 8-10 hours of my life thinking of an interesting angle to pursue, doing the analysis, and writing up the results the recruiter informed me (about a week after I had submitted the assignment and only after another email from me) that they wouldn't be moving forward with my application. Due to the vagueness of the assignment I asked for some feedback about what they saw as problematic or were looking for more specifically and I got absolutely nothing.
I could understand the desire to see some creativity from candidates, but this was just way too open ended and showed little effort on the part of the company to put together a professional interview process. The problems with the take-home assignment are only compounded by the fact that this is first contact: there's no preliminary call to talk about the details of the position or really suss out if there's a fit on both sides. My advice would be not to waste your time throwing darts in the dark when you can't even be sure you'd be interested in / right for the position.
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Question 1
do something, but we won't tell you what we're looking for.
Gonna do it in a few days, so i'll get back with more info after that. I recieved the email invitation, with some instructions. Tone is inviting right now, we'll see how the interview feels after this
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.