Spotify Platform and Streaming Technology Questions

Targets domain knowledge of the technical building blocks for large scale music streaming and content delivery. Areas include playback architecture and client behavior, streaming protocols and buffering, offline playback and synchronization, recommendation and personalization engines, storage and media formats, content delivery networks and caching approaches, latency reduction strategies, and innovations in real time synchronization and user state distribution. Interviewers use these prompts to gauge familiarity with platform specific constraints and trade offs.