I've worked in the tech industry for 10 years at companies including Twitter and Uber. This was the single worst recruiting experience I've ever had. I was initially contacted by a talent "researcher" in Stockholm, who was a nice guy and quickly said he thought I was too senior for any of the roles there. He referred me to a Talent Manager in New York. Over the course of several months, this person proceeded to schedule and cancel me for multiple phone screens across different departments. Each time, he would schedule me for something irrelevant to my background (I'm consumer side, but because I had "video" experience" he booked me for a video ads role??) and I would point out that it didn't seem to make as much sense as other open roles. At one point he suggested that I was too junior for a Creator experience role, even though I've literally lead product teams building artist tools at my last three startups. The whole experience was so off-putting and unprofessional that I ultimately withdrew from the process before I even started it.

Brought in to NYC office and immediately realized that I was the oldest person in the room by ~5 years. Everyone else in 20's and 30's. Employees were stretched out over couches and generally hanging out in very millennial fashion. The hiring manager went through the motions of asking me the prepared questions about the role, but I knew it didn't matter how well I answered because I was simply not going to fit in age-wise. 8 hours later, received a simple 1 line email telling me that I wasn't being considered for the position. Don't even bother applying to Spotify if you're over the age of 38 or so.