Spotify·Software Engineer

Spotify Software Engineer interview experience

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Stockholm, StockholmPosted Nov 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through what felt like a classic recruiter-to-technical flow: first a recruiter screen, then a technical screen, and finally an onsite-style sequence.

In my case, the manager portion was about 30 minutes and the technical interview ran about 45 minutes. The questions were grounded in my experience and timeline—what my most challenging tasks were, how I handled conflicts, and how I used psychology at work—plus some fitting-the-story conversations about my background.

The technical interview was coding-only, which genuinely caught me off guard because I’d been leaning toward system design and cloud work in the weeks beforehand. It happened in a web IDE, and the environment didn’t feel great: weird errors kept popping up, and the audio made

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