I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify in Nov 2022
Interview
First of all - the most unnecessarily long interview process given how redundant it was that lasted a total of 60 days. I do not recommend it for anyone.
Recruiter call
Tech screen - SQL/Python
Hiring Manager Interview
Take home project presentation
Final Round - 4 interviews
While the data scientists I met with were very nice, the recruitment team is an absolute dysfunctional mess. It was very difficult to get in contact with them. 3 of the 4 final interviews were identical. All of the same questions were asked as if they were reading from a script. Maybe condense that down to one interview in the future.
One of my final interviews had to be rescheduled for a week after the originally scheduled final round. At that point (after 7 interviews) they should have had some idea but I ended up waiting a week anyway for the last one to be rejected right after. No feedback was given.
I have never left a review before but it was so awful I felt compelled to try and save somebody from my experience.
It had 3 rounds of interviews with the final interview with data science manager. Mostly were technical questions and the final one being mostly high level project questions along with product data science related metrics type scenarios
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Product related metrics scenarios, it is consistent with most companies with product data science teams
Fairly standard, recruiter screen, take home assignment with a presentation and analysis then final round with a presentation of your take home to an audience (virtual due to the pandemic). I had a follow up afterwards with the hiring manager as well.
Initial HR Screen followed by call with Hiring Manager. I failed out after the hiring manager call. HR was at least nice enough to get back to me soon after to let me know they were moving forward with other candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience with product-oriented analytics?
Senior 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 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Data Scientist roles take an average of 61 days to get hired, when considering 9 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 Senior Data Scientist according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
Skills test: 17%
One on one interview: 13%
Presentation: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Other: 4%
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