I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Sep 2020
Interview
Phone screen consisting of a paired coding session followed by an interview with hiring manager. Second (final) round consisted of 4 panel (pair) interviews, two behavioral, one system design, one additional coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All of the questions asked were very fair for the role. Behavioral rounds will dive deep into your background, so be prepared to speak in detail about points on your resume. Coding questions were also very fair (not your Google leetcode hard type) - brush up on C.S. fundamentals and you should do fine.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Jul 2020
Interview
Waste of time. Recruiter was out of her depth, and the team didn't seem to have a connection to the larger overall mission. A lot of autonomy but very little strategic direction. The "staff" engineer who interviewed me seemed really insecure and got defensive when I asked him basic clarifying info about his job. He stopped our interview 15 minutes early because he got the time wrong, and then gave me a thumbs down for not going into more detail in my solution. What can you do.
On the bright side most of the questions were pretty easy and the work doesn't seem hard.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Standard JS prototype, closure questions, `this`, lexical scope
I was contacted for an interview and the interview was scheduled. before the interview time, the recruiter canceled the interview only two hours before the interview time without giving any reason. i even contacted him asking why, no reply. incredibly unprofessional.
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Senior Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Spotify with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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