Spotify

Software Developer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

March 1, 2019

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This first step is ridiculous. They let you play with useless logic games, like circle/squares/arrows. How can you screen the skills of a software developer in that way? I regret not closing the test when I realized it was that kind of assessment. I should have gone back to the recruiter and said I was no longer interested.

Questions

Recognize some useless patterns with circles, squares, arrows...

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Spotify Software Developer role in London, United Kingdom.

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Spotify's interview process for their Software Developer roles in London, the United Kingdom is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Spotify's Software Developer interview process in London, United Kingdom.

Spotify Work Experiences

Started taking antidepressants

Software Developer • Current Employee

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Pros: Great culture. Some good people are here, but they are leaving really fast nowadays. Average salary and benefits. Sometimes music bands visit the office.

Cons: No visible end to non-satisfying work. No support from other squads, and people just don't give a sh*t because it's "not their business". Discussions for the sake of discussion. Meetings for the sake of meetings. Teams and management are shuffling all the time without any consistency.

Started taking antidepressants

Software Developer • Current Employee

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Pros: Great culture. Some good people are here, but they are leaving really fast nowadays. Average salary and benefits. Sometimes music bands visit the office.

Cons: No visible end to non-satisfying work. No support from other squads, and people just don't give a sh*t because it's "not their business". Discussions for the sake of discussion. Meetings for the sake of meetings. Teams and management are shuffling all the time without any consistency.

Best place to work

Software Developer • Current Employee

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Amazing mission of improving the world through music. Actively trying to help both music fans and artists. Great culture and incredible co-workers. Challenging problems to solve. Fantastic tools and hardware. Fun!

Cons: Demands more commitment than many other jobs.

Best place to work

Software Developer • Current Employee

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Amazing mission of improving the world through music. Actively trying to help both music fans and artists. Great culture and incredible co-workers. Challenging problems to solve. Fantastic tools and hardware. Fun!

Cons: Demands more commitment than many other jobs.

Sweet People, Long Commute

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: They are super sweet and the culture is amazing!

Cons: The commute can be shorter.

Sweet People, Long Commute

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: They are super sweet and the culture is amazing!

Cons: The commute can be shorter.

Started taking antidepressants

Software Developer • Current Employee

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Pros: Great culture. Some good people are here, but they are leaving really fast nowadays. Average salary and benefits. Sometimes music bands visit the office.

Cons: No visible end to non-satisfying work. No support from other squads, and people just don't give a sh*t because it's "not their business". Discussions for the sake of discussion. Meetings for the sake of meetings. Teams and management are shuffling all the time without any consistency.

1.0
Started taking antidepressants
Software Developer • Current Employee
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
June 12, 2017
Pros: Great culture. Some good people are here, but they are leaving really fast nowadays. Average salary and benefits. Sometimes music bands visit the office.
Cons: No visible end to non-satisfying work. No support from other squads, and people just don't give a sh*t because it's "not their business". Discussions for the sake of discussion. Meetings for the sake of meetings. Teams and management are shuffling all the time without any consistency.

Best place to work

Software Developer • Current Employee

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Amazing mission of improving the world through music. Actively trying to help both music fans and artists. Great culture and incredible co-workers. Challenging problems to solve. Fantastic tools and hardware. Fun!

Cons: Demands more commitment than many other jobs.

5.0
Best place to work
Software Developer • Current Employee
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
May 21, 2017
Pros: Amazing mission of improving the world through music. Actively trying to help both music fans and artists. Great culture and incredible co-workers. Challenging problems to solve. Fantastic tools and hardware. Fun!
Cons: Demands more commitment than many other jobs.

Sweet People, Long Commute

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: They are super sweet and the culture is amazing!

Cons: The commute can be shorter.

4.0
Sweet People, Long Commute
Software Developer • Former Employee
April 6, 2022
Pros: They are super sweet and the culture is amazing!
Cons: The commute can be shorter.

Spotify Interview Questions

Sliding Window Median

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 WindowsBinary Search

Moving Average from Data Stream

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

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

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