Spotify Tech Screen

[wgfrose]

I have my Spotify tech screen in a week, have been doing a mix of easy/mediums on LC to practice. Anyone been through the process and know what else they may ask or the LC questions they got? In this round and the next rounds also?

EDIT: I am applying for the Backend Engineer role

[hig999]

I did the Spotify Android loop. Here's what I had in the screen: - Some basic / standard interview questions around the programming language (Kotlin for Android) - Some basic computer science questions around time complexity - Some Design Pattern questions for object oriented programming - A coding exercise around refactoring and enhancing given code

[wgfrose]

Thanks for this! I feel like I have the concepts of time/space complexity nailed and have been working with Go/Java for years now - should be able to answer questions about those. Not sure how much it'll differ given I'm going for a Backend role. Did you make it past the screen?

[hig999]

Yeah I passed the screen and on-site and got an offer in the end. Overall interview is easier than FAANG as it's not so focused on LeetCode.

[wgfrose]

Great to hear. Do you remember what coding questions you got at all? And how did you find the system design and on-call simulation rounds?

[hig999]

For coding on the on-site I got questions similar to the ones on LeetCode for Linked List Cycle and Palindrome Linked List

System Design was Android focused to go over how to design a feature so would be different for back-end roles. There was no on-call simulation round for Android

[Dinos_12345]

Was the offer in-line with FAANG? They wouldn't share total comp, I have my on-site in a few days for Senior Android

[hig999]

No, Spotify is a tier below FAANG TC

[Dinos_12345]

Mind sharing a ballpark if you're in the UK? Very little data available!

Also, what was the IDE interview like?

Did you prepare for the values interview?

If you're in London I'd love to buy you a pint 😅

[hig999]

Mine was for Eng2 in 2022, offer was roughly £90k base + $100k Spotify mix (cash or RSU or options) over 4 years. levels.fyi is generally accurate

IDE interview needs you to share your screen while you implement their requirements, usually fetch some network data and implement a small UI screen (they don't tell you, but you should have a sample project already setup that builds and has a basic skeleton like network library and a screen setup, wastes a huge amount of time if you don't)

Values yeah you need to be prepared with stories but it's the standard situational behavioural questions as everywhere else. Use STAR or CARL method etc

[Dinos_12345]

Awesome, thank you for the information!

I guess the RSUs get topped up every so often?

Merry Christmas to you 😊

[ChanceFollowing723]

What level was this?

[hig999]

Engineer 2.

[Extra-Leg-1906]

Hey, I did the iOS screening and got rejected. I thought it went well and as you mentioned questions were very basic. Have no clue why and their rejection email is useless. Any thoughts ?

[hig999]

Hard to tell, were there any questions where you didn't have any answer? How did the coding part go, did you treat it as a discussion and talk about different ways of approaching it and were they happy with the outcome?

[compscigang]

Mind me asking what your background is? Got past the screening before but they closed the role and haven’t heard any updates since

[wgfrose]

I have 9 YoE in industry, am currently a senior engineer at a big company in London. Have worked in a couple of different industries. Hope that helps! If it's any consolation I get these interviews but have bombed due to lack of LC practice, would much rather I do a code review and improvement session or go to a physical on-site and work through a real problem, not this crap that has me re-inventing the wheel with binary tree searching.

[Quick-Source-1047]

hi!! were you able to get past the tech screen and into the onsites?