I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Spotify in Sept 2022
Interview
Experienced an extremely disorganized recruiting process with Spotify. I went through the entire interview process for a role, and was eventually told that the feedback was very positive but that they gave the role to someone else. The recruiting team was helpful enough to plug my profile for other open roles, and I was selected to interview for another product manager role. In the initial recruiter screening call for this next role, she said that given my previous interview feedback, I would be able to have an expedited process to save all parties time. She then quickly forgot about that and proceeded to schedule a full slate of interviews all over again. The interviews with this second round was not enjoyable at all, and was a direct contrast to the wonderful folks I met during the first round. I ended up not getting an offer for this second role as well, just as Spotify laid off literally all the recruiters I worked with. What a mess.
3 rounds. Phone screen with recruiter, convo with hiring manager, final round was 3 additional conversations with the team. Questions centered on previous experience, working with data, product strategy, etc.
It was good, for the period while it lasted. The main kicker though, was that they closed the role right in the middle of my interview process without communicating why.
Structured and professional. Assessments were tough but fair, making sure you could translate needs into features which drive product roadmaps and established milestones to measure against. Recruiters were flighty and like any big company they rely on their brand to have you want them
