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      Backend Engineer Interview

      Mar 10, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Stockholm, Stockholm
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Spotify (Stockholm, Stockholm)

      Interview

      I applied through the common online application portal for interns. The website clearly stated that Spotify would get back to me only in January or so. Nevertheless, I could only assume how many interview rounds the process involved and what the different interviews deal with. Probably, this is different for each specific role/internship. The following process had two interview rounds. The first was technical, the second more behavioural. Each should have lasted for 30 minutes. Once I received the invitation for the first interview, I was already assigned to a team. The interview was led by two engineers from this team and dealt with technical topics. At the beginning, we dealt with some tech trivia. Then, we continued and did some live coding. The interview lasted a few minutes longer than the initially scheduled 30 minutes. At the end of the first interview, the engineers were not quite sure about how the process continues. They thought that someone would get back to me quite soon and that this would already be the final decision. However, the reply of Spotify took a week longer and consisted of the invitation to another interview. The second interview was a behavioural and tech knowledge was not that important anymore. The interviewer was the manager of the team I was assigned to. The idea might have been to know whether the manager thinks that my person fits in the team or not. Nevertheless, the manager talked about the own career, the team and the team's responsibilities. Afterwards, I had the opportunity to ask questions. I asked some deeper questions and we talked about them quite a lot. During the second interview, I had a good feeling. It felt like the manager was trying to advertise the job to me (successfully). However, towards the end, the manager pointed out that they interview several other candidates who also do not seem to be bad. I again was told to expect a reply quite soon. This time, the interview overrun significantly which was okay because we talked about the available interview time at the start of the interview (a shorter interview would have been possible). The style of the interview might depend very much on the team and the interviewer; take the interview as an opportunity to figure out whether the team is a match. After the first interview, I could assume a little bit whether my performance was acceptable or not. Even though I had a good impression during the second interview, I had no idea on how the result could be like. I received the actual positive reply the next week (later than expected) with a very nice HR call where I already got to know about some of the logistical job details. Additionally, I could also ask any question.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The coding task was less about coding knowledge but more about reasoning; learn to explain your thoughts.
      Answer question
      2

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      Mar 9, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Spotify (London, England)

      Interview

      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.

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      Backend Engineer Interview

      Jun 5, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (London, England) in Apr 2025

      Interview

      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.

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      Backend Engineer Interview

      Mar 25, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
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      Application

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      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.

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