Candidates applying for Recruiter roles take an average of 45 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Recruiter according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 75%
One on one interview: 25%
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I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify
Interview
Probably one of the worst candidate experiences I've had in my career.
1) Had a reach out by recruiter after applying to the role.
2) Had a 30 minute call with the said recruiter about the role. Talked through my background (very superficially) then asked a few questions about the organization, process, timeline. Next step would be a chat with the hiring manager, I was told.
3) Had an hour long conversation with the hiring manager via video chat. Learned more about the role, the team. No difficult questions. No behavioral questions. Completely superficial interview where I sold myself but the hiring manager didn't get any more detail on my ability to lead teams, manage ambiguity, be strategic and/or recruit. In this interview I was told that I would move forward to the next stage which was a conversation with an HR leader. I was also told that the manager would be comfortable moving to offer very shortly after that. And, that the role was a perfect fit for my background. There was also discussion of my traveling to one of the HQs for an in person interview.
4) Didn't hear from the recruiter or HM for a week and a half following this. I reached out. Got an email back from the recruiter saying that the hiring manager had moved too quickly and that more people needed to be interviewed. Total change of tune from what hiring manager had told me.
5) Didn't hear from anyone for another 2 weeks. Reached back out to the recruiter and found out they'd moved forward with other candidates. A phone conversation with the recruiter occurred and several apologies did happen in that exchange - but it left me pretty speechless. I also am pretty dissapointed that the hiring manager never reached out to personally apologize.
If the team at Spotify is going to continue to scale at "aggressive" speed and be able to actually achieve the growth that they're supposedly for - they're going to have to really work hard on candidate experience. If this is the experience one has to endure for a recruiting role - I can't imagine the kind of good recruiters and candidates that are falling to the wayside because of the poor management of this process.
I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY)
Interview
I applied online. I was invited to a phone interview. Scheduled an initial date. The recruiter had to reschedule the last minute. I never heard back from her. So I followed up and got an automatic out-of-office response. Then she finally got back to me. The night before the phone screen, she reached out and said that they found another candidate. So essentially, their recruiting team rescheduled and cancelled on me twice last minute.
I love Spotify as a company. I use the product. This makes me want to puke. I was a recruiter myself. I am proud to say I have never done something so disorganized and unprofessional to a candidate. Please stop wasting candidates time and get your acts together.
I thought Spotify had one of the best recruiting teams and practices...I guess not. Very glad I did not end up working with such team.
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