Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 6 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify (Estocolmo, ) en sept 2019
Entrevista
It was a three steps interview, late 2019, I was rejected after the final step in Stockholm. First step: HR interview (remote) is a quick chat to assess the role fit. The second step is coding assessment (remote) on Scala, a few data engineering tasks, not really complex. The last step, the on-site all-day interview, expands into four 1-hour assessments: 1. case study: discuss an actual disruption they experienced and spot the underlying issue 2. system design: design a system supporting a dashboard showing metrics about played songs with a few filters, from client to server 3. whiteboard coding interview: implement a queue. Distributed map-reduce, explanation, how to handle sorting 4. behavioral assessment: an interview with psychologists, they wanted to understand me as a human being in a working place I suppose
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
design a system supporting a dashboard showing metrics about played songs with a few filters, from client to server whiteboard coding interview: implement a queue. Distributed map-reduce, explanation, how to handle sorting
There were 5 different steps:
1. Phone round
2. General interview
3. Coding Round 1
4. Coding Round 2
5. HR round
Getting selected in all these rounds is necessary. Interview was mostly remote via zoom.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Binary Search-related questions. Also, graph- and tree-related questions were asked in coding interviews.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify
Entrevista
Recruiter emailed me to schedule a call based on his availability with a calendly link. I’ve scheduled according to the recruiter’s availability. Waited for 30 mins for the call at the scheduled time but haven’t received a call. When I emailed the recruiter about the same, he said sorry and asked to reschedule. I did the same and reacheduled accordingly but this time the recruiter again didn’t show up nor responded to my email. Very worse behavior and unprofessional behavior from such a big company.
El proceso duró 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Spotify (Berlín)
Entrevista
The recruiter asked me why I have a gap year, and how/why I changed countries. I told her because I wanted to advance on my career, learn a new language... And also that my partner got an offer abroad. Her face ~ changed ~. She didn't mention anything about code challenge or anything.
Of course, I was rejected. We all know the reason.
