Machine Learning Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Spotify with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 64% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Machine Learning Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 11 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 Machine Learning Engineer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
Group panel interview: 27%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 18%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Interview with recruiter on experience and salary expectations, following that interview got my intended level reduced from Senior to MLE2, final round of 5 interviews, everything except for values were case studies (case study on designing recommendation system, predicting number of active users, etc), very few questions on ml theory, one question on sql
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Design backend around ML Recommendation model
2) Build data pipeline on sorting for a most popular artists per country
3) Predict number of monthly active users
4) Build a recommendation system of 1 song per user
I got contacted with a recruiter and had a call with him.
It was a pleasant conversation. The recruiter was friendly and very clear at communication. The information was transparent. I didn't continue to the next interview because I decided not to relocate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My experiences in machine learning model deployment, integration and expected salary range.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Dec 2024
Interview
The interview process was a good process connected with the recruiter who asked some standard behavioral questions and technical for 30 minutes. I was then scheduled with a technical interview.