Process
The entry-level software engineering interview consisted of three rounds:
- Coding assessment
- Behavioral
- Final round with engineers (approximately 15 minutes behavioral and 45 minutes technical, ranging from easy to medium difficulty).
A lot of reviews go into detail on each round, so I highly recommend researching them before your interviews.
One thing I want to add is that this will likely be one of the best interview experiences you've had. They provide resources to help you prepare for the rounds, so be sure to ask about them. You have resources available here as well, so make sure to use them. The interviewers are probably the nicest I have seen, so be sure to be nice and respectful to them too. They want their candidates to be the best they can and as prepared as possible, so they do what they can to help.
The best part about this is that they give feedback. Yes, I didn't get the offer, but I was given the extremely rare opportunity to hear some feedback. Please don't be humble; schedule a time with your recruiter to hear some feedback. This is something very, very few companies do, but HubSpot has set aside time for this. Take advantage of it.
Overall, a wonderful interview experience.
Questions
Tell me about a time you struggled and how you overcame it.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the HubSpot Entry Software Engineer role in United States.
Success Rate
HubSpot's interview process for their Entry Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for HubSpot's Entry Software Engineer interview process in United States.
HubSpot Work Experiences
- 5.0Amazing Growth, Zero ConsSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeDublin, Leinster, IrelandSeptember 14, 2025Pros: Flexibility and a lot of opportunities for growth.Cons: Can't think of any cons.
- 3.0Good in parts. Really bad in othersSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeDublin, Dublin, IrelandAugust 6, 2023Pros: Great engineering ecosystem. Very easy to get code into production. Very good standard of engineers (I think below par engineers that got through the interview process simply would not handle the work and would leave). Self-organized teams (although this is both an asset and a liability at HubSpot).Cons: Compensation was so-so. Self-organized teams have meant some teams set a higher bar for their service quality. So you could be getting paged very often on a strict team and not at all on a lenient team. Eng Management was hands-off, which was good, but they weren't policing the fact that the team was missing input from Product. Engineers were, in effect, the product owner/manager. On-call is completely unacceptable, especially as remuneration is considered part of your base compensation. You're on-call 1 in 3-5 weeks (in some cases, even every 2). And if your team has strict monitoring, expect to be getting calls. So at one end, you've engineers on-call 1 in 5 weeks who might never get called, and at the other end, engineers on-call 1 in 3 weeks getting called round the clock. And both are compensated the same. The "culture," although having nice parts, is force-fed at such a rate that you eventually vomit and reject it. (We don't all live/work in the US, so pushing agendas that are US-born in Ireland is very wrong). Young engineers with little experience in other companies. This has led to a lot of belief that the way HubSpot does things is the way the world works. This should not be the case.
- 5.0Good Place to WorkSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesMarch 14, 2024Pros: Great people, great benefits, and meaningful work. Teammates are stellar.Cons: Typical big company problems: lots of upper-level politics, playing favorites, and no level of transparency. If you can ignore it, you will be successful.
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