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Spotify Data Engineer Interview Experience

Spotify · Mid level

ResultRejected
Timespan2 weeks
DifficultyMedium
Rounds3

Interview process

Friendly interviewers, thorough with their questions. Questions focused on GCP, BigQuery, Apache Beam (Dataflow)

Interview rounds · 3

  1. 1

    Recruiter screen

    Behavioral
    1. Q1. Why do you want to work at Spotify?
  2. 2

    Technical round

    Data ModelingData Pipeline Design
    1. Q1. Design tables and a processing pipeline to support daily metrics such as unique listeners, play count, total listening time, and top artists by country.
  3. 3

    Online assessment

    Coding
    1. Q1. Implement a function to return the top K tracks by play count efficiently.

Tips from the candidate

GCP, BigQuery, Apache Beam (Dataflow)

PySpark

Strong reason for working at Spotify with relevant stories drawing from their own experience.

Company culture

Great culture, pleasant office space and friendly interviewers.

Details

CompanySpotify
RoleData Engineer
LevelMid level
LocationUnited Kingdom
InterviewedApr 2025
Questions asked3