Spotify

Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

January 1, 2022

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Recruiter reached out via email and set up a technical interview. Technical interview with two developers from different teams. I thought it went fine, but no feedback as to why I would not continue the process.

Questions

Describe something you worked on.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 25 interview experiences for the Spotify Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

Spotify's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive56%

Neutral16%

Negative28%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Spotify's Software 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