Spotify·Data Engineer

Spotify Data Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter call, then moved into a technical screen on CoderPad.

I was told I’d get Python and SQL questions, but the SQL part never really showed up, and the interview felt closer to a software engineering technical interview than a pure data engineering one. The overall professionalism wasn’t great—there were moments where the interviewer wasn’t fully on top of the flow.

The questions leaned into data and algorithm basics, and there was a sliding window problem I had to solve. The algorithm itself wasn’t framed as extremely hard, but I still missed it, mostly because of personal circumstances that affected how I performed. Everyone I spoke with was

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