I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify in Jan 2016
Interview
On the same day as I sent in my resume, a recruiter sent me a long assignment with a 7 day time limit. No warning. Even though I had other competing deadlines, I had to work on this thing in order to get to the next stage. I did not get to talk to a human being about the position before having to do this assignment.
They did not answer my questions about the assignment while I was working on it. I had to ask 3 times before they told me I didn't get it. I received no feedback about the week-long assignment.
Apply only if you have lots of free time to kill...
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
