I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Spotify in Mar 2022
Interview
It took them a long time at each stage to book my interviews. Once they were booked, they seemed to go well, though I experienced last minute cancellations and had to roll with the punches anyway.
I received the offer, and then two days later was informed that I needed to make a decision by the next day because they wanted to hire someone else instead of me. I was literally on my way to the airport when the messaged this to me, at around 5pm. I tried to research the offer as much as I could at that time, asked if they could possibly offer a compensation bump given the situation to help me feel more comfortable under the circumstances and they immediately dropped me from the process.
I liked all the people I interviewed with and was seriously considering the offer, but now I feel disgusted by the company as a whole. I've never been treated so badly before by any company in my career.
Tldr; given offer, offer rescinded immediately on suspicious grounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an ML system that deals with tracking listens
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Interview with recruiter on experience and salary expectations, following that interview got my intended level reduced from Senior to MLE2, final round of 5 interviews, everything except for values were case studies (case study on designing recommendation system, predicting number of active users, etc), very few questions on ml theory, one question on sql
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Design backend around ML Recommendation model
2) Build data pipeline on sorting for a most popular artists per country
3) Predict number of monthly active users
4) Build a recommendation system of 1 song per user
I got contacted with a recruiter and had a call with him.
It was a pleasant conversation. The recruiter was friendly and very clear at communication. The information was transparent. I didn't continue to the next interview because I decided not to relocate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My experiences in machine learning model deployment, integration and expected salary range.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (New York, NY) in Dec 2024
Interview
The interview process was a good process connected with the recruiter who asked some standard behavioral questions and technical for 30 minutes. I was then scheduled with a technical interview.
