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      Backend Engineer Interview

      21 Jan 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Stockholm, Stockholm
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify (Stockholm, Stockholm) in Aug 2017

      Interview

      Started with a pre-screening with a recruiter on the phone. Then went on to a video screening with live coding in a shared web editor. After that i was called to an onsite in Stockholm with interviews the whole day.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Group an arrays consecutive characters, while keeping an eye for speed and memory performance.
      Answer question
      6

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      Backend Engineer Interview

      9 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Spotify (London, England)

      Interview

      I had an intital interview, but I knew I would fail, The recruiter seemed disinterested and moody like tired. I got asked the typical questions like salary and stuff, but I knew I was going to fail the interview due to the above. I think if I had a different more professional interviewer I would have passed.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Please Tell us about yourself?
      Answer question

      Backend Engineer Interview

      5 Jun 2025
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Spotify (London, England) in Apr 2025

      Interview

      I had 3 rounds: 1. Phone screening with hiring manager: my background, feedback culture. Fairly standard. 2. Technical screening with 2 engineers: tell in depth about one of my recent projects, general technical questions (TCP/UPD, DNS, etc). One easy LeetCode problem. 3. 4 interviews on last stage: values, algo & ds, system design, case study. Values - normal set of values/behavioral questions that should be answered with STAR. Algo & DS - 1 medium LeetCode problem. System Design - basic system design task, not complex system. Case study - debug previously occurred production incident. Interview process was good, hiring manager kept me updated during whole process and helped a lot. Interviewers were great and friendly, I did not feel like it was "gotcha" type of interviews, but rather they genuinely tried to know more about me. My advice: clearly explain and speak aloud your thought process on technical interviews, and prepare STAR format answers for most commonly asked values questions in advance and memorize your answers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Difference between TCP & UPD
      Answer question
      1

      Backend Engineer Interview

      25 Mar 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Spotify

      Interview

      1 phone screen, and onsite 1 technical, 1 system design, behavioral, and case study. All leetcode style. Traditional. They are very slow however. They will compare you with other candidates and get all the feedback at once. It's an employers market most definitely.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      a BFS graph question that they make it cute
      Answer question
      1

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