Spotify

Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

June 17, 2017

Negative ExperienceNo Response

Process

Music is definitely a big passion of everyone there, and you can tell.

SWE style questions. One or two basic data questions. They are really looking for a SWE who read a blog post about machine learning, not really interested in real expertise in that domain.

Questions

How could you tell if a song is a duplicate in our catalog?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Spotify Machine Learning Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

Spotify's interview process for their Machine Learning Engineer roles in New York, New York is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%

Neutral0%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Spotify's Machine Learning Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

Spotify Interview Questions

Sliding Window Median

Hard

Find the median of all sliding windows of a given size within an array of numbers. The window slides one position at a time from left to right.

ArraysSliding Windows

Moving Average from Data Stream

Easy

Design a data structure to calculate the moving average of a stream of numbers. The moving average is calculated over a sliding window of a specified size.

ArraysSliding Windows

Analyze User Website Visit Pattern

Medium

You're given user website visit logs. Find the most frequent sequence of three websites visited by any user.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows