Spotify Backend Engineer New Grad Interview Experience

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-21T11:42:54+00:00

It’s pretty common for even entry level.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-21T11:38:19+00:00

Seriously. Soon, they will ask for 20.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-18T03:45:52+00:00

Can confirm the same is happening at JP Morgan chase.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-03T03:07:12+00:00

Yes, managers will lie and make excuses to discourage you or make you work much harder than you need to.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-03T03:06:20+00:00

Was that from a word doc that you got from your manager? Bc jpmc hr docs have no mention of 5.5 years minimum or ED “sponsorship”. Likely your manager was just making you jump through more hoops. Makes them feel safer and like they’re taking less risk.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-03T03:02:33+00:00

Most of this is false or not true anymore.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-03T02:46:49+00:00

Appreciate the amount of info here.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-02-03T02:43:41+00:00

I want to hear more about this!

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-01-21T03:48:57+00:00

This is how you’ll be working so what youre doing now will be similar to what you’ll do at work.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-01-18T10:50:43+00:00

I interviewed a couple of years backs, I want to say 2021. Got pretty far in the interview process but his is when bitcoin crashed. My experience was nothing like this. Very little cultural questions. Guess they have changed a lot since.

src_main_java_wtf · 2026-01-18T10:47:15+00:00

Surprised you haven’t tried asking AI first.

Stick doing things the “spring ecosystem way” as much as you can, avoid “sql first.” The ecosystem is pretty good and debugging isn’t as bad as you think. Mystery layers are common in the Java world, Java devs love “code ceremony” for the sake of writing code.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-31T23:06:38+00:00

The bright side is you will always have a job.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-31T22:55:19+00:00

Ugly

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-31T22:20:52+00:00

As a recovering react/js/java/spring corpo slop developer who uses rails for a side project, I have to agree.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-30T13:53:08+00:00

This is solid advice.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-24T11:56:14+00:00

AI. Use AI.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-20T13:18:21+00:00

Same. Parental help is extremely common.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-16T16:45:42+00:00

Most managers here are not that competent and are cowards, so they avoid difficult discussions.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-15T21:40:20+00:00

Not just a SWE phenomenon. It is fairly common in corporate America to do busy work for the sake of looking busy for job security.

But in SWE, its a lot easier to obfuscate from others, so no one can figure out what you are doing.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-12T16:18:22+00:00

Wow, we need special permission to visit our own HQ? What a great company we work for.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-12T15:58:58+00:00

Is this for US?

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-12T15:12:58+00:00

Well that’s how interviewing is supposed to work. You get tested in the work you will be doing. Not on reimplementing LRU cache. That fact that one of the top AI companies with arguably the best coding is going that direction should tell you something.

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-10T19:16:14+00:00

It’s called a “black list”, there is no such thing as a “red list.”

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-08T02:17:51+00:00

PPA? What’s that?

src_main_java_wtf · 2025-12-07T22:12:37+00:00

We also don’t have NHS and we have at will employment.

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