I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify in Apr 2022
Interview
First round was values/behavioral-based with the hiring manager and another engineer. The second/final round was with 2 other engineers where they asked about a previous ML project, various questions regarding ML and tech stack. I like that Spotify gives you a general summary on what the interview will be about so you can prepare beforehand.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were to do a different ML model for this project, what would you do?
Did you create a baseline to compare your answers to?
What backend tools and technologies are you familiar with?
How did you handle imbalanced dataset?
How would you do regression based on multiple features?
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.
