Software Engineer II applicants have rated the interview process at Spotify with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer II roles take an average of 52 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Software Engineer II according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 20%
Personality test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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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. 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
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.