Spotify·Data Engineer

Spotify Data Engineer interview experience

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I went through a fairly structured hiring loop for a Data Engineer role at Spotify.

It ended up being multiple rounds overall, with programming and system design showing up alongside behavioral questions. The sequence felt designed to test both how I approached hands-on problem solving and how I thought about building and reasoning through larger systems.

Before the deeper technical work, I had a chance to get a sense of what the technical screening would look like. Even though I didn’t have all the specifics spelled out, it helped clarify the general direction: the screening was meant to evaluate more than just buzzwords, focusing on the kinds of problems where coding and

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