Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at HubSpot with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HubSpot overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HubSpot as a Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Other: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
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1. There is an online assessment, it's the same question every year
2. There is then a behavioural interview, basic questions regarding how you work in a team, using STAR technique
3. Then there's the final technical round - the coding round was merging two arrays, super simple and basic. You need to consider all edge cases and lay them out and write out test cases. Everything needs to be perfect and quick in order to pass
System design is regarding netflix, you get given requirements like:
Customers should be able to browse the TV shows and movies we have in our catalog. We’ll list titles by genre and perhaps other categories like “recently added” or “top ten”.
Customers should be able to play videos at different resolutions on different devices.
We should remember the customer’s play position so they can finish a movie they started the day before.
You have to be perfect with the system design, get the requirements down asap, draw out the diagram asap and describe everything in low detail, then you will be asked questions regarding aspects of the design e.g. what would API requests look like, what technologies to use, etc. Be quick and polished.
I received a rejection for dumb arbitrary reasons, they're super tedious about the process and really care about you having everything down really perfect and polished. I know multiple other people to have been rejected for small reasons too, so you have to be quick and polished.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge two arrays up to a given length and return that merged array
Design netflix given requirements
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at HubSpot in Mar 2025
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Wasteful amount of interviews, Opaque process, Constant bait & switch, Ghost job listings. Hubspot is everything wrong with our industry in modern times. Lots of patience to anyone interviewing for a role at hub's pot.