Spotify·Data Engineer

Spotify Data Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

New York, NYPosted Feb 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey felt structured and formal, with five distinct steps.

It started with a recruiter call, then moved into a general interview, followed by two separate coding rounds, and then an HR round at the end. I had to get through every stage for the process to continue.

All of it was remote over Zoom. The entire approach felt like it was intentionally segmented, with each round functioning like a gate. That made it easier to track where I was in the process, but it also meant the bar stayed high across multiple rounds.

I wasn’t offered the role. Honestly, the hardest part for me was keeping the momentum and energy consistent through so many sequential

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