I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify in Sept 2021
Interview
The interview process is similar to major companies like Facebook, Google.
There are total 6 rounds.
First interview is a recruiter call, to understand more about the you and your background. If all things looks good you are invited for the second. round of the interview.
In second round, there are two employees from the team who will ask DS algo and basic foundational questions.
If the second round goes well, you are finally invited to onsite final interviews.
The final rounds are 1 hours 4 round.
1. System design
2. Behavioural
3. IDE programming
4. DS Algo
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mid level DS algo questions, for stacks queues, linked list, trees, arrays etc.
I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY)
Interview
Phone screen, coding interview/backend specific questions, then a 5 hour long interview session of -
1. coding interview
2. case study
3. system design
4. behavioral/values
Overall had a good experience, the interviewers were all very friendly and the questions were fair.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: design a system that allows Spotify users to add a custom picture to their playlist. other users should be able to view this picture as well, but only the owner of the playlist can edit the picture
Recruiter screen. Tech Screen.
On-site in four parts.
* Algorithms
* Architecture
* Management / Team
* Incident roleplay
The incident section was really good, very enjoyable.
I absolutely bombed the architecture section because I got stuck on the question of "how would you measure this thing?"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time you had to deal with a conflict in your team?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (Stockholm, Stockholm)
Interview
It was a fairly long process, but not particularly hard. Had a recruiter screening, a technical interview (LeetCode Easy), then a day with 4x 1hr interviews. These were values, system design, case study (bug finding session), and technical programming (LeetCode Medium). Then it was a placement meeting, and an offer call. Any decent engineer should be able to do it in my eyes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the indices in an array of two non-negative numbers that add up to a third number. Analyze and optimize it.