Took around two months for them to review my CV, then a call was scheduled with a recruiter. They were clearly sitting in a vast open plan area with a lot of background noise. The recruiter made no effort to be personable or "sell" Spotify. They seemed pretty bored and disinterested. After the screening call, I was told that they wanted me to go through to the next stage but that I need to do an online test for 30 minutes first. I did the test, which "scientifically" claimed I was "above average" for various logic, pattern matching stuff, I didn't hear anything from them for two weeks. Then I got an automated email telling me that I was not going forward to the next round. It seems like they have so many candidates that they have forgotten that they are talking to smart, talented applicants with a choice of places they are considering working at. Throughout the process, your application sits in a black box with no means of contacting anyone who emails you (they hide behind their system's no-reply email addresses). Which means you cannot nudge them on progress. My advice to Spotify would be to consider the damage that your recruiting teams are doing to your brand. You are falling way short of the standard offered by other, much larger firms with even more applicants. Also ditch the pseudo science tests...