The final interview was 5 hours long, with a 20 minute culture fit thing at the start, with the rest of the time alternating 45 minutes of algorithm questions and 15 minutes of general chat. It was, long, exhausting (stopped being able to solve algorithms about 4 hours in, brain started freezing), no-one showed any real interest in anything I'd done (there was one 5 minute chat about 4 hours in about a side project I did a year or before) and no-one explained what 5 hours of algorithm questions was meant to achieve.
If they'd explained the format before I wouldn't have gone.
It was really surprising, because the people seemed friendly. Seems like there's gotta be something pretty broken somewhere in the process to get good people to treat you like that. They also never got in touch with me to tell me if I'd passed or not. I never chased them up; if that's how they treated me before I started, imagine what'd it be like working there!
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
A range of pretty standard algorithm questions, with one domain-specific algorithm question that took 15 minutes.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify (New York, NY) en may 2026
Entrevista
Spoke with a recruiter, was ghosted after the interview. He asked all the standard questions - why Spotify, expected level, salary expectation, what are the priorities, why left previous company, etc.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What was the most complicated project you were working on in your previous company?
Initial HR Call and screening, then arround two weeks later leet code task, followed by on-site architectural/design test and the final culture fit check with HR/Managers. Overall the process was 3-4 weeks.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify en dic 2025
Entrevista
The interview process was long and drawn out. It took 2.5 months with multiple delays and rearrangements from Spotify side. I can’t fault the actual interviewers, they were very nice and considerate, but the organisation of the process was very messy and disorganised. At the end I received a rejection with no feedback on Christmas Eve.
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Pregunta 1
Debug a production system with logs and Linux commands
