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Android Engineer Interview Experience - Stockholm, Sweden

October 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a Spotify recruiter.

The interview consisted of the following steps:

  • HR screening with a few basic Android questions.
  • Skype 1:1 interview with an Android engineer. This interview included more in-depth Android questions, a coding challenge, and a code review task. The coding challenge was to implement a timer in 20 minutes, with the ability to start and stop the counter and save its state on configuration changes/activity restarts. After this interview, I received detailed feedback and was invited to the onsite interview.
  • Onsite interview: Three interviews (plus lunch, which I'm not sure was taken into account as an interview).
    • The first was a cultural interview with the hiring manager and the PO, where I discussed my work at my current company and asked questions about the Spotify development process.
    • The second interview was problem-solving, and I had to solve a medium-difficulty matrix problem.
    • The third and last was a "Show & Tell": I had to bring a project, explain some architectural decisions, and discuss testing choices.

Overall, the process was nice, and the HR team was very effective and detailed in their feedback.

Questions

  • Activity and Fragment lifecycle
  • Services types
  • SOLID principles
  • Design patterns (GOF and MVP)

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Spotify Android Engineer role in Stockholm, Sweden.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Spotify's interview process for their Android Engineer roles in Stockholm, Sweden is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive83%
Neutral0%
Negative17%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Spotify's Android Engineer interview process in Stockholm, Sweden.

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