The recruitment process took between 3 and 4 months to complete.

Except for the actual engineers who interviewed me (all friendly and nice), the process was a complete disaster from a recruitment point of view. Communication with the recruiter was mostly initiated by me; they didn't seem to care at all, and when we did arrange a session, it would not take longer than 10 minutes.

The recruiter took a very long time to schedule the interviews and then waited 3 weeks after the final round to set up a call to provide me with a final answer.

In the end, I passed all interviews, and the recruiter "was sad to be the bearer of bad news" but it turned out Spotify had decided to relocate the headcount and pulled the job opening after I had completed the entire hiring process.

So, they basically wasted 3 months of my time, plus a lot of time from their own employees interviewing me. On top of that, I had other interview processes ongoing that I had asked to postpone, since Spotify was my first option.

When the recruiter informed me that they no longer had an opening, they suggested I apply for another role in a different team, but I would have to go through the interview process again. What a joke.

1. Coding challenge
2. Onsite (4 hours)

• Values: How to handle conflict, describe a project, show leadership traits
• Web Domain: Draw a traffic light with HTML/JS/CSS, make it blink, and use animations.
• Programming: LeetCode medium
• System Design: Design a chat app that scales.