Immediately after I applied online, a recruiter sent me a data assignment to be completed within one week. The task was to find interesting results using specified publicly available data with any empirical methods that we know. After submitting it, on the next business day I was invited for a Google Hangouts interview with one data scientist, where I was asked about my research background and what sort of questions I'd be interested in answering using Spotify's user data. Two business days later, I was invited for a fly-out interview at Spotify's offices in New York. The on-site interview consisted of four 45 minute one-on-one interviews with data scientists and analytics consultants. There were no technical questions, and the interviews more resembled conversations. The interviewers also eventually asked me how I felt Spotify's product could be improved and what types of questions I'd want to answer using their data. One week later, I was told by the recruiter that they were not going to extend an offer to me.