Spotify
Music streaming platform using ML for personalization and recommendation.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a system to track the top K most played songs globally in real-time.
#Streaming
#Top K
#Kafka
#Redis
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the architecture for Spotify Wrapped. How would you handle the massive surge in traffic and data aggregation at the end of the year?
#Batch Processing
#Big Data
#Scalability
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time collaborative playlist feature where multiple users can add, remove, and reorder tracks simultaneously.
#WebSockets
#CRDTs
#Concurrency
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a rate limiter for Spotify's public Web API to prevent abuse from third-party developers.
#Rate Limiting
#Redis
#API Gateway
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a notification system to alert users when a new podcast episode from their subscribed shows is released.
#Pub/Sub
#Push Notifications
#Microservices
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a system for uploading, processing, and distributing audio files from artists to listeners.
#CDN
#Transcoding
#Storage
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the 'Discover Weekly' delivery system. You don't need to design the ML model, but design how the generated playlists are stored and served to millions of users every Monday.
#Caching
#Batch Processing
#Scalability
Full Stack Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a hit counter for song plays. It needs to handle billions of increments per day and provide accurate counts for artists.
#Distributed Systems
#Aggregation
#Redis
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