Web Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Spotify with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Web Developer roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 6 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 Web Developer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 17%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (Stockholm, Stockholm) in Oct 2013
Interview
A head hunter contacted me through LinkedIn asking for a resumé, introduced me to the job description with was pretty much matching my profile.
A week later I did a one hour technical interview through Skype where I was asked about http requests, threads, memories, java x php, typed vars x untyped vars, apache x nginx and other subjects related to web development in general.
Another week later I was contacted by a js/php dev leader to test me using an online colab PHP editor and I there were three tests to be done:
- Identify unique integers in an array. (easy)
- Sort an array (easy). (without using array_sort).
- Check nested strings following this examples: (intermediate).
'{}' -> is nested
'{{}}' -> is nested
'{}{}' -> is nested
'{}}{' -> not nested
'}{{}' -> not nested
'{{{}}}' -> is nested
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To sort an array is theorically easy but I didn't know if I could use php's sort() function (I should have made this question).
So I tried the create a bubble sort and selection sort but I was too nervous to manage doing it.