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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cambridge, Massachusetts

October 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

HubSpot contacted me about three weeks after I met a recruiter at a career fair. They warned me the process took only a week and so I should decide when to start the interview process such that I could respond within that period.

First, there was a coding challenge: two problems. One was easy, and the other appeared to be easy, but I only got one out of six tests to pass.

Nonetheless, they called me in to give me a tour of the workplace and asked me about some projects I had worked on. Then, they asked if I was in a position to accept the offer. I asked for another two weeks' delay (I had other interviews) and then accepted the offer.

Questions

Given an array of strings containing only lowercase letters, create a function that returns an array of those same strings. Each string should have its letters rearranged to form a palindrome, if possible. If a palindrome cannot be formed for a string, return -1 for that string.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 42 interview experiences for the HubSpot Software Engineer role in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Success Rate

45%
Pass Rate

HubSpot's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Cambridge, Massachusetts is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%
Neutral12%
Negative21%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for HubSpot's Software Engineer interview process in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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