Spotify Data Engineer interview experience

The coding challenge was leetcode-hard, and it felt like the bar was set for deep engagement rather than quick answers. They went fairly profound and expected a lot of follow-up reasoning, not just a final result. I remember getting questions about my projects and what I’d been working on, and then the session shifted into CoderPad with hard leetcode style problems.

Later, the process culminated in an onsite that was long and panel-like, with four interviews that took about five hours total. I had interviews covering data, system design, coding, and behavioral. The people I talked with were