I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Spotify
Interview
Applied online, and got an e-mail back saying to fill out a survey to see if I'm still interested. After filling the survey out, was told that I would hear back within 2 months. After not hearing back, sent a follow-up e-mail, to which no one has responded to. HR is literally non-existent
Had two interviews in one day. One with a manager who was very friendly. One with two software engineers who were kind of awkward and didn’t seem to want to be there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General domain questions, leetcode problem, and culture fit.
Applied online, got OA with LC medium/hard problems. Passed to two technical rounds - one focused on data structures, another on system design basics. Both interviewers were friendly engineers. Final behavioral round with engineering manager discussing past projects and team fit. Whole process took about 3 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of song durations and a target playlist length, find all combinations that sum to the target.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify in Apr 2025
Interview
Some HR calls and then 2 interviews with a specific team. One interview was coding and domain questions, the other was on culture and values. Domain questions will depend on what team you're interviewing with. Coding section was LC Easy - Medium.
Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Spotify with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 85 days to get hired, when considering 7 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 Software Engineer(Internship) according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 36%
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 27%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
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