I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (Stockholm, Stockholm) in Mar 2018
Interview
I have been referred by a friend for the position of the fullstack js dev with inclination in frontend.
The whole process took about 1,5 to 2 weeks.
First i had an interview with the HR girl, then a skype call with two developers and then an onsite interview: 4 interviews + lunch.
Overall I had a positive experience ))
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
1. Phone interview with recruiter: basic questions like what happens when you click a button on a website?
2. Video Call with developers: what is an event loop, css selectors priority, flexboxes. Asked about current positions.
Then they gave a code example with a few different async callbacks and asked what would be executed first.
Then asked to write a code to validate nesting in a string that looks smth like this "(1+1)[{}[))]"
4. On site coding interview: a problem to transform number to a string. 123 => One hundred and twenty three.
They have already had a coding example to build on.
5. On site Infrastructure Interview: there was a looot of questions. Loads of drawing boxes on the whiteboard. Starts with: "So you need to do a website... how do you do it?", and ends up with something like "So your users in Germany are happy but people in Australia complain its slow",
I have beel asked like a hundred question during this interview. More like interrogation tbh ))
How would you store passwords. What would you use to deploy. How to test your code. etc etc.
Last on site interview problem solving skills: there where two different htmls with different levels on nesting. Asked to write a function that will extract only text nodes
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in May 2013
Interview
A Talent Acquisition rep reached out to me via LinkedIn, indicating that they wanted to talk to me about a Javascript Engineer position. I responded (via LinkedIn) that I was interested in the position. After not hearing back for over a week I contacted the rep directly (their email address was listed publicly).
The rep responded within minutes to let me know that she didn't handle the Javascript Engineer position and that she would pass my resume off to the correct person. I was included on the hand-off / handshake email. The new rep responded almost immediately and requested that I re-send my resume (even though the hand-off email included all of my LinkedIn details and a copy of my resume).
After some back-and-forth to confirm that the phone number listed on my resume (the same number that appeared in the signature of all of my emails) was the best number to reach me, we scheduled a phone call for later in the week. The phone call was simply to confirm that I was interested in the previously-discussed Javascript Engineer position and that I was capable of writing "non-jQuery" Javascript. With those points established we scheduled a second phone call with an engineer for the following week.
When the engineer called, he hadn't seen my resume and knew nothing about me other than my name and that he was to quiz me on all things Javascript. The first few questions were straight-forward; "what's the difference between 'var x = 0' and 'x = 0'". Subsequent questions were vague and covered some broad topics, "describe closures", "describe a couple design patterns", etc.
After the quiz we talked about the range of products & tools teams worked on as well as the way Spotify constructs its teams. Because the engineer knew nothing about me or which position I was interviewing for, he couldn't provide any detail about the team or product I'd be working on.
Why was I contacted by someone about a position they had no control over? Why did I have to wait 3 days to have a 5 minute phone call just to verify that I was applying for the position they had contacted me about? Why hadn't the interviewing engineer been given a copy of my resume and been told which position I was interviewing for? While everyone I spoke to was friendly, there was a general air of disinterest. The entire process felt muddled and impersonal which is unfortunate, considering that the process was started when the company reached out to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In Javascript, how would you make a variable read-only?
