Recruiter reach out on LinkedIn followed by technical screen (coding in python and SQL and questions on A/B testing) followed by Hiring Manager call. The recruiter was professional and friendly - followed up quickly after every conversation. The tech round interviewer was honest (on questions like layoffs, stress at Spotify, and other hard questions) and friendly and someone who'd be nice to work with. The hiring manager was highly inexperienced and didn't understand basic data science concepts like Linear Regression models and their results interpretation which was super surprising as that wasn't what I expected from someone at Spotify. The conversation with her was very frustrating as she was exactly the kind of person you'd never want to work with, let alone have her as a manager. To top of her lack of DS/ ML/ stats knowledge, she also seemed very disinterested throughout the call and literally asked my name 5 minutes into the interview. It was shocking to see such people actually work and manage DS teams at Spotify. Highly disappointed.

It had 3 rounds of interviews with the final interview with data science manager. Mostly were technical questions and the final one being mostly high level project questions along with product data science related metrics type scenarios