Interview Steps:

1. HR Screening
2. Take-home project
3. Video interview with team lead (Boston)

Before I could progress any further, HubSpot had hired for the position.

1. HR reached back out a year later (re-screening)
2. Video interview with team lead (Boston)
3. On-site for 4x interviews
4. Interview with Director and Chief Marketing Officer

I had initially been interviewing with HubSpot in January of 2018, but unfortunately, the position had been filled before I could move into final rounds. In January of the following year, they reached back out to see if I would be interested in picking up where we had left off. I truly admired the fact that HubSpot had kept me in consideration for that amount of time, which truly set them apart from other companies.

Disregarding the year pause, the process was rigorous with many interviews. However, my HR contact was excellent in providing me with speedy feedback from each interview and constantly helped me understand the nature of the upcoming interview. I was given a detailed brief of who I’d be interviewing with, their backgrounds, and what the interview would likely entail. This was immensely beneficial, and I haven’t experienced anything like it with other companies.

The interviews focused on culture fit as much as technical skillset. Career progression, growth, and continued learning were the key factors I was looking for in my next role, and these matched up closely with core values at HubSpot. For the technical interviews, don't expect any trick questions; pretty much all the questions have been detailed within these reviews. The role I was interviewing for was primarily a JavaScript position, so make sure you know your ES6 and core fundamentals of JS (hoisting, scope & context, async behavior) – all of these were quizzed in an informal way. Thankfully, I was over-prepared for the questions that were asked and was reasonably confident I had done a good job.

Overall, my experience interviewing was extremely positive, and I really appreciated knowing exactly what I was going into with each and every single one of my interviews. When I received the offer, I was told that there was an increase in the salary as I had performed quite well in the interview, which was another really nice gesture.

I was given a mock-up design and asked to implement the interface (HTML & CSS). I was told to build as much as I could in 10 minutes.