Android Engineer Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts
Process
I was contacted by a recruiter who asked a bunch of questions about my background and some about cultural fit.
This was followed by a Skype interview with live coding, and then an onsite interview consisting of four rounds.
I believe I performed well in all but one coding interview.
All the people I spoke with were very friendly, smart, and seemed to enjoy working there.
I did not hear back from the recruiter after the onsite interview, even after contacting them to request an update.
Questions
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Design a stack that supports push, pop, top, and retrieving the minimum element.
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In a Binary Tree, find the sum of the path between two nodes (LCA).
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Live coding on Android: demonstrate a list view with images and JSON parsing.
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Culture fit interview.
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How would you design and model some existing features in the Spotify app?
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Interview Statistics
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Success Rate
Spotify's interview process for their Android Engineer roles in Boston, Massachusetts is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Spotify's Android Engineer interview process in Boston, Massachusetts.
Spotify Work Experiences
- 5.0Flexible, Collaborative, Minor Communication GapsAndroid Engineer • Current EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesFebruary 3, 2017Pros: Highly collaborative environment, great benefits and perks, lots of flexibility and learning opportunities.Cons: Rapidly growing organizations can sometimes create communication gaps between various skillset groupings.
- 5.0The best job I had so farAndroid Engineer • Current EmployeeStockholm, Stockholm County, SwedenAugust 12, 2019Pros: - Working with really smart people. - Working in cross-functional teams, having end-to-end responsibility of a product. - Free food all day. - Lots of after-work events, with a separate floor for having fun (ping pong, foosball, VR room, karaoke room, board game room, and more). - Free Spotify account. - People from all around the world, really open and really friendly. - Chance to go to conferences and visit other offices in other countries (or even relocate there, fully supported). - Changing teams from time to time is encouraged. - Good quality product. - Great development environment provided, with a good IT department. - Flexible working hours.Cons: - Making Swedish friends is not easy, but they mostly speak English even amongst themselves. - Getting a promotion is not easy. The whole system is a bit weird for me. The people who decide if you are worthy are people you are not working with. In order to move forward, you need to increase your visibility, which means that everyone gets a lot of company-wide emails from people trying to do exactly that about topics that are not important. - The salary is not great compared to other companies in Stockholm, but including the other perks (like stock options) it's still a pretty neat package.
- 5.0Amazing Culture And PerksMachine Learning Engineer • Former EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesMarch 5, 2025Pros: Benefits, culture, perks, music, environmentCons: Can't really think of any cons.
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