I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY)
Interview
I was contacted by Spotify about potential opportunities. There was an initial recruiter phone screen followed by a 60 minute Round1 interview conducted over Google Hangout with shared documents.
From the start the scheduling of phone screen was problematic. I would suggest a couple days+times later in the week and would get no response until the following week, asking for new times. I'd reply and then once again not hear back. This back and forth and long delays went on for 1 month. When it happened, the phone screen was routine and non-technical, just standard goals, request for current salary, etc. I generally don't like salary sharing this early but they claim they want to be sure we're in the same ballpark, which is fair-- so I gave a wider range.
The Google Hangout technical interview was scheduled and the first time I was never contacted at the date+time by the interviewer. We rescheduled with the recruiter for a couple days later, and it happened on time. The interview was a technical discussion of CS fundamentals and common knowledge questions about the discipline I focus on. There was a couple routine programming questions on the shared document, mostly along the lines of: write a function that does ___. It wasn't all that hard. It concluded that they would be in touch in a few days with feedback.
After this I never heard back from them, and was so worn out by the process I didn't bother to follow up. It took over 6 weeks to reach that point and still fell apart.
Interesting company but poor communication in the recruitment pipeline, and didn't get the sense of any urgency in hiring or value of individual candidates. Perhaps they have a big pipeline and let people fall through the cracks since they can.
I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in May 2026
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify in Dec 2025
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Debug a production system with logs and Linux commands