Spotify·Software Engineer

Spotify Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

SpainPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied while I already had an offer from another company, so I was upfront early and asked the recruiters to move quickly so the timeline wouldn’t expire.

I was told the process normally took about three weeks and that they’d try to complete it in two.

What happened instead was repeated delay. The recruiters were based in Singapore, which meant there were roughly day-long gaps between updates, and additional days were lost because of technical issues with the scheduling platform. There was even a “wellbeing week” where no interviews happened, and I wasn’t informed in advance that it would extend the overall timeline by another full week.

Even though I performed very well across interview rounds, I heard nothing for almost two more weeks. When

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