I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Dec 2015
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter within two weeks from Spotify in NYC. The recruiter was very unprofessional, as he would not respond to my responses. A few months later, I was contacted by another recruiter and the process was smooth from there. An initial phone call with this new recruiter, followed by a purely technical discussion on security mechanisms and approaches.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you explain XSS to a non-technical person.
Initially there is a multiple choice test which consists of standard questions about security.
After that there is a call where the recruiter asks the typical questions about biggest failures, strengths etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are your biggest strengths?
What was your biggest failure?
Security 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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Security Engineer roles take an average of 120 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Security Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Personality test: 33%
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