I think I was biased by the recruiter because of my background. I applied online and got an interview invite in the email from an internal recruiter. He canceled on me last minute multiple times and did not apologize during the interview. He was rude and was speaking so fast at like 800 words per minute when he was reading the job description in the end. He made some comments which made me think I may have been biased because of my background and I was not given a fair evaluation. I have interviewed with so many companies including the FLAANG companies in tech and this was the worst experience. I like to believe he was just one bad apple because I really like Spotify's culture based on my research.
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
