I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify in Jan 2026
Interview
I made it to the 2nd interview and was rejected but they actually gave feedback in the rejection email so respect to spotify for that.
1st interview just asked for your work experience background, why are you leaving job and want to join spotify.
2nd interview was talking about recent work or personal project and any changes you would do differently and how do you handle scale. Then domain questions about the role which for web engineer was a html question, css questions, and javascript questions about setTImeout where they should you code and you describe order of execution. Finally was coding question, it was between an easy - medium sliding screen leetcode question
Negative experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Apr 2023
Interview
The people who actually interviewed me were great, but the recruiters were awful. I was definitely over promised what my options would be after the process was done. They also ignored a request to move a call regarding the final round process a few hours earlier, and instead called me at the worst possible time, though I still felt obligated to answer. My rejection email was sent by a totally different recruiter who I had no previous contact with, and though it ended with “If you’d like more feedback from me, please do get in touch” my response was of course completely ignored so I have no idea what happened.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
first round: LC type question but not terribly hard - more of a exercise in collaboration Second round: behavioral round, system design round, DS&algo round, web code specific round
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Spotify in May 2022
Interview
I had an HR screening call and then a technical interview. I did not move on past the technical interview.
The HR screen was very short, about 5 minutes. We discussed my background and skillset and then I was moved on to the technical interview. There was not an opportunity to ask questions to the recruiter. Afterwards, the recruiter provided a lot of information to prep for the technical interview, which was helpful.
Scheduling the technical interview was a frustrating experience with Spotify's hiring and scheduling software. If you use Gmail's Promotions inbox filtering, their emails will go there instead of your main inbox.
The technical interview was a live coding interview with an engineer. First we discussed my background, skills, and some projects I've worked on. Then, we went through some web domain-specific questions. Then, we dove into a coding problem. I was given a mockup of two buttons and asked to recreate it in HTML/CSS. I think there may also have been a Javascript-based coding question, but cannot remember the specifics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take the mockup image provided and recreate it with HTML/CSS.