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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

October 1, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I aced my interviews but still did not get an offer. They are interviewing just for the sake of showing the world that they are hiring. I am pretty sure they are not hiring.

The job I applied to was reposted on LinkedIn before I finished my interviews. I was well prepared for the interviews; I have worked on low-latency distributed systems at FAANG for 5+ years.

I was interviewing at Hubspot just to practice my system design skills. I was well aware that Hubspot could not match my TC. They still rejected me, saying the bar is really "high".

The bar at Hubspot is pretty low. They have been asking the same system design and coding questions in the last 3 years.

Questions

  1. Screening

A 3-hour coding challenge which I aced in 40 minutes.

  1. System Design Round 1

Design Netflix (Search a video, play a video, resume a video, recommendations from watch history, multiple users using the same account problem).

  1. Coding

Merge two sorted lists.

  1. System Design Round 2

Design an API for a weather app to support 2,000 zip codes in the US. Assume you are fetching data from an external website like nsw.com for your weather app.

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