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Data Engineer Interview Experience

Spotify·Mid Level / L4

United KingdomHybrid

Result

Rejected

Interview date

2 years ago

Timespan

2 weeks

Difficulty

Moderate

Interview process

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

Recruiter screen
Technical interview
Online assessment

Interview rounds

3 questions across 3 rounds

Recruiter screen

1 question

Question types asked

Behavioral

Specific questions asked

Why do you want to work at Spotify?

Technical interview

1 question

Question types asked

Data Modeling Data Pipeline Design

Specific questions asked

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

Online assessment

1 question

Question types asked

Coding

Specific questions asked

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

Interview tips

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.

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