I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (London, England) in Nov 2024
Interview
HR call -> chat with the manager -> technical screening -> product manager interview -> take home presentation -> general analytics engineering interview -> interview check in.
The overall interview process is quite long, but quite efficient in my case. Most interviewers were very easy to speak to. Technical tests were about leet code easy level. The take home test was not too difficult, but mainly focus on the general solution design and how to make your presentation understandable for non-technical audiences.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to work with product manager? How to deal with data when you scale up your data volume? What kind of data tests should be used for data models?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify in Aug 2024
Interview
Phone screen w/ recruiter and then tech screen. The tech screen was very silly, it didn't test actual coding ability at all. I was told it would test sql and python but instead of actual python, it had a question on pandas which they should have specified. It seems like they don't know how to test for this role and the recruiter isn't familiar with tech roles. I asked the interviewer if they use python/pandas on the job and he said no... I was sent a rejection email a few days later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
3 main questions - 2 sql and one "python". First sql was to reformat the query for better readability. Second sql was to name the columns of a query based on what the logic was doing. Python question was really a pandas question that was something about updating a column in the dataframe based on a specific condition. Super dumb, I expected better from Spotify
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (Stockholm, Stockholm) in Jun 2022
Interview
First personal interview containing a couple of technical questions. Moved on to final round which included case prepared before final day. The final round contained 4 separate interviews: case presentation, coding, statistics, personal interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain Bayes Theorem and then applications of it.