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They weren’t allowed to talk about it, which is really nice in terms of bias to prevent anything, you know, bias related to happen there. One was the primary interviewer and the second was there to kind of shadow and just, they gave their feedback separately. And so I’m trying not to get them mixed up, but, I believe it was a Google Hangouts call and there were two interviewers. And how did it work? Is that like you have a Zoom call or a Skype call or a Google Hangouts and then you see each other or do you have, like, do you have like some dock opening that you’re looking at from both sides? Or how does that work? Emma: I’m trying to remember all the specifics because I also was interviewing with Google at the time. So these onsite was there not an onsite, it was still in a remote interview, I guess. I want to ask a little bit more about this interview experience. But let’s look at that a little bit later. well, there are so many things that I wanted to talk to you about because, going and saying, well, I’m going to move to Sweden, especially Sweden, because I think they were really in the headlines of, you know, having a very drastic, different approach than the rest of the world, but in general, making such a big decision, during really uncertain times. And then they got back to me very, very quickly and made me an offer. I got to talk with the hiring manager and things of that nature. and then I, you know, I got to meet some of the team members. There was a systems design interview and another JavaScript interview. It was comprised of data structures and algorithms.
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And, I think I have a series of three or four interviews that encompass that.
And they said, We’d like to move you into, I don’t think I had to take them project, I think it was just onsite, what would have been an onsite. And after that went well, they got back to me pretty quickly. it was really all encompassing, which I thoroughly enjoyed it wasn’t just like heavy JavaScript algorithms. I had my first coding challenge online, and it just covered basic web development. And after that I had a coding challenge, everything was virtual just given, you know, the fact that COVID was happening, it was, we were in the depths of COVID at the time.
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Um, so that recruiter call was pretty, pretty easy just given that I already had a standing professional relationship with her. So I had the same recruiter as I had the year before. And that’s when I went through the process again. Would you want to interview?” So, I had already had that internal contact, which was very nice. I reached back out to Shaun and I said, “Hey, do you have any openings? I’m looking to move to a new country. When was it? It was probably like early this year. And so I ended up pulling out of the interview process, and that was in 2019. But you know, at that time I actually just moved to Germany, so I wasn’t looking to relocate to Sweden at the time. And so I had my initial phone screen with Spotify and I did, it was kind of like a, a time challenge for logic puzzles, so I had to like solve a series of logic puzzles, like here’s a pattern of four things or three things fill in the fourth one. And he said “Hey, I think you’d be a really great fit for our design systems team”, I at the time was doing design systems work at Log Me In, and he said, “would you be interested in interviewing?”. Can you tell us a little bit about your interview experience with them, how did you get in touch with them and yeah, how was that whole process for you?Įmma: Yeah, so I was actually doing my Twitter thing and I received a DM one day from an engineering manager at Spotify, Shaun Bent. And naturally, I want also to ask you about how you came to work at Spotify.
So Emma, one of the topics that I really love to talk about with my guests is how they landed their current and past jobs. Emma, welcome to the show.Įmma: Hey, thanks so much for having me. Well, what should I say? I’m super thrilled to have Emma here with me today to talk about her amazing journey. Before joining Spotify, she worked for Log Me In and IBM, won competitions and moved countries several times. So she’s also a vivid blogger and speaker and the co-host of the awesome Ladybug podcast. Well, this book sold so well that she could even pay back all her medical debt.
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Emma recently started as a software engineer at Spotify, and Emma is the kind of person that not only applies to interviews for jobs but at the same time writes a complete book about her interviewing experience. I’m your host, Doctor McKayla and today I have the pleasure to talk to Emma Bostian. McKayla: Hello and welcome to the Software Engineering Unlocked podcast.
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