The process consisted of the following steps:

• Call with the recruiter
• Call with the hiring manager to explain the position
• Technical phone screen, which included a presentation of a past project
• Tech leadership interview (behavioral)
• Problem-solving (LeetCode-easy type of problem)
• Pair programming
• System design

Takeaways:

• The process took almost 3 months.
• Technical interviews were not particularly difficult.
• Pretty much every interview was rescheduled literally last minute because interviewers were not available. It gave me the feeling that Spotify doesn't care about my time. In an in-person setup where they fly people for on-site interviews, they would have come up with a solution instead.
• After the last interview, it took them more than 3 weeks to come back to me with a final decision.

At the end, they made me an offer for a lower level than the one I interviewed for, but I declined it because it wasn't good enough compared to other offers I had at the same time.

I enjoyed talking with everybody, but overall communication was very slow and time management was pretty poor. Generally, a pretty negative interview experience and a disappointing offer with limited space for negotiation (they could offer only a 7% bump on the base salary they offered at first).

Design a screen with a list of elements.

This is a LeetCode easy question on linked lists.