Spotify·Software Engineer

Spotify Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

SwedenPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interaction was a pretty straightforward recruiter screen, and then I was brought in for an hour-long technical interview.

In that session, I discussed my previous experience and I also got a set of information security questions. After that, I solved two easy coding problems.

The overall tone felt positive at the start, and I left thinking I’d represented myself well. But before my final set of interviews were scheduled, the recruiter came back to me with a hard constraint: they wouldn’t be able to guarantee relocation and visa support due to an ongoing crisis, and they put the process on hold.

I was writing from a country they couldn’t guarantee relocation for, so the decision landed as a disappointment that

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