Spotify might have been a great company some time ago, but that's no longer the case.

The interview process took almost half a year. I applied online through their website. After a week or two, I received a call from HR. At the end of our interview, she told me she liked me and that the next step, an interview, would be scheduled.

After four months, they scheduled an interview with an engineer from one of the teams. The interview with the engineer was quite simple, with mostly basic questions:

• Write code to reverse a string.
• Check if two strings are anagrams.
• Check if a string is a palindrome.
• How garbage collection works.
• What is reference counting (follow-up question about cycles).

The engineer was happy with my answers and said they would contact me in a week, wishing me good luck in the further process.

After a week, they obviously didn't contact me, so I wrote an email to HR. HR told me they didn't have a status update on my application and would let me know as soon as possible.

After three weeks, they still hadn't provided any information.

It was the worst interview experience of my life. I would never work for this company again. I hope the people responsible for this are fired.

1. Write code to revert a string

2. Check if two strings are anagrams

3. Check if the string is a palindrome.

4. How garbage collection works

5. What is reference counting (follow-up question about cycles)