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The algorithm questions were standard questions involving arrays and strings, nothing too difficult or that couldn't be trained for. The debugging session was more of a collaborative white boarding session (shared screen on google hangouts) going through a scenario of figuring out why a service was having issues. The engineers running the interview would give a basic outline of the architecture and you would need to ask for more information to get to the bottom of the issue. The systems design question involved architecting a new feature for uploading photos to playlists.
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Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at Spotify

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Aug 24, 2020

The algorithm questions were standard questions involving arrays and strings, nothing too difficult or that couldn't be trained for. The debugging session was more of a collaborative white boarding session (shared screen on google hangouts) going through a scenario of figuring out why a service was having issues. The engineers running the interview would give a basic outline of the architecture and you would need to ask for more information to get to the bottom of the issue. The systems design question involved architecting a new feature for uploading photos to playlists.

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