I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Apr 2020
Interview
Started with a HR screen and then hiring manager call, followed by a technical screen, and then finally an onsite. I did not make it past the technical screening. The questions, for the most part, were relevant to the tasks of the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Write a function to output all prime numbers below N
2. Write a function to manipulate a pandas dataframe
3. Write a SQL query to group and aggregate user listening data
I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2026
Interview
So, At first it was HR interview, After that a technical interview (SQL and Python - 2 questions each) and a long code of SQL that needed to be explained.
After that. I had an interview with Hiring Manager and a case study in the last round. It had 4 rounds in total.
The hiring manager started the first round interview with "I'm gonna get ahead of this but based on your experience I don't think it's a good fit." Huh?? Then why do the interview in the first place? this wasn't even a referral? They were dismissive the whole interview and I couldn't wait for it to end. Also mentioned the role wouldn't be technical which tells me the JD was misleading. Additionally, the pay is below average for the level of experience they were requiring. Overall, not worth it - especially if the interview would be indicative of management style.
Had a first round interview with a recruiter, questions were about examples of A\B testing, a visualization dashboard, and once we worked on performance metrics. Interview rounds are 5 one online coding, a hiring manager, a case and presentation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A\B testing, Dashboards, screen coding, case presentation
