Spotify·Data Engineer

Spotify Data Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

New York, NYPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got contacted by a recruiter for an early-March interview, and the recruiter call itself was only about 20 minutes.

It was pretty warm and easygoing, and I talked through my background in detail, including specific experiences from my resume, challenges I’d worked through, and the technical frameworks I’d used. The questions also followed a fairly standard pattern—nothing felt wildly unusual.

I later received an invite for the final round, which was split into two parts: one 45-minute behavioral interview and one 45-minute technical interview. The whole last stage could be scheduled either as all interviews in one day or spread across two days. Overall, I felt like the process was clear and

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