I was contacted by Spotify about potential opportunities. There was an initial recruiter phone screen, followed by a 60-minute Round 1 interview conducted over Google Hangout with shared documents.

From the start, the scheduling of the phone screen was problematic. I would suggest a couple of days and times later in the week and would get no response until the following week, asking for new times. I'd reply and then once again not hear back. This back and forth and long delays went on for 1 month. When it happened, the phone screen was routine and non-technical, just standard goals, request for current salary, etc. I generally don't like salary sharing this early, but they claim they want to be sure we're in the same ballpark, which is fair – so I gave a wider range.

The Google Hangout technical interview was scheduled, and the first time, I was never contacted at the date and time by the interviewer. We rescheduled with the recruiter for a couple of days later, and it happened on time. The interview was a technical discussion of CS fundamentals and common knowledge questions about the discipline I focus on. There were a couple of routine programming questions on the shared document, mostly along the lines of: write a function that does ___. It wasn't all that hard.

It concluded that they would be in touch in a few days with feedback.

After this, I never heard back from them, and was so worn out by the process I didn't bother to follow up. It took over 6 weeks to reach that point and still fell apart.

Interesting company, but poor communication in the recruitment pipeline. I didn't get the sense of any urgency in hiring or value of individual candidates. Perhaps they have a big pipeline and let people fall through the cracks since they can.

Standard CS questions