I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify
Interview
Take home data analysis assignment and 2 video interviews (one machine learning and one general coding). Took a few weeks for the whole deal. I got positive feedback on everything but was ultimately not given an offer. The questions in the coding interview were pretty easy (using Python) and the machine learning interview was a bit more challenging but didn't require any live coding, just talking through the problem. Everyone I dealt with was very nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Disambiguate artists with the same names given metadata and song list
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.
