I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Spotify (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2021
Interview
Recruiter screen > tech screen > 4 tech sessions at remote "onsite" + 1 presentation
Tech screen: python and metric movement.
On-site: product sense about metric movement, how to interpret metrics, visualization, talk through previous work. intermediate SQL, product management screen about how to scope new work and how to work with PM stakeholders. Hypotheticals about how to answer open ended data science problems. Presentation on a project that they provide to you after the tech screen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you make a new column in pandas that is an aggregation of other elements from other columns? How would you visualize this data? What type of modeling would you use to predict X.
I applied online. I interviewed at Spotify (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2026
Interview
So, At first it was HR interview, After that a technical interview (SQL and Python - 2 questions each) and a long code of SQL that needed to be explained.
After that. I had an interview with Hiring Manager and a case study in the last round. It had 4 rounds in total.
The hiring manager started the first round interview with "I'm gonna get ahead of this but based on your experience I don't think it's a good fit." Huh?? Then why do the interview in the first place? this wasn't even a referral? They were dismissive the whole interview and I couldn't wait for it to end. Also mentioned the role wouldn't be technical which tells me the JD was misleading. Additionally, the pay is below average for the level of experience they were requiring. Overall, not worth it - especially if the interview would be indicative of management style.
Had a first round interview with a recruiter, questions were about examples of A\B testing, a visualization dashboard, and once we worked on performance metrics. Interview rounds are 5 one online coding, a hiring manager, a case and presentation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A\B testing, Dashboards, screen coding, case presentation