Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify en mar 2022
Entrevista
Interviewed with the hiring manager and an engineer. They were both very nice, started by asking me about a project I worked on. Went on to ask some domain questions then went on to a Leetcode style coderpad portion. Left some time at the end for me to ask some questions.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What would you do if your site was slow?
What happens when you type a URL into the address bar?
TCP vs UDP
Fibonacci sequence (recursive AND iterative solutions)
Compare two strings and return whether they are equal or not
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify (Londres, Inglaterra)
Entrevista
I had an intital interview, but I knew I would fail, The recruiter seemed disinterested and moody like tired. I got asked the typical questions like salary and stuff, but I knew I was going to fail the interview due to the above.
I think if I had a different more professional interviewer I would have passed.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify (Londres, Inglaterra) en abr 2025
Entrevista
I had 3 rounds:
1. Phone screening with hiring manager: my background, feedback culture. Fairly standard.
2. Technical screening with 2 engineers: tell in depth about one of my recent projects, general technical questions (TCP/UPD, DNS, etc). One easy LeetCode problem.
3. 4 interviews on last stage: values, algo & ds, system design, case study.
Values - normal set of values/behavioral questions that should be answered with STAR.
Algo & DS - 1 medium LeetCode problem.
System Design - basic system design task, not complex system.
Case study - debug previously occurred production incident.
Interview process was good, hiring manager kept me updated during whole process and helped a lot. Interviewers were great and friendly, I did not feel like it was "gotcha" type of interviews, but rather they genuinely tried to know more about me.
My advice: clearly explain and speak aloud your thought process on technical interviews, and prepare STAR format answers for most commonly asked values questions in advance and memorize your answers.
1 phone screen, and onsite 1 technical, 1 system design, behavioral, and case study. All leetcode style. Traditional. They are very slow however. They will compare you with other candidates and get all the feedback at once. It's an employers market most definitely.
