Process
You have to start with a coding challenge. They do not accept any portfolio of previous work.
I give the example of asking a nurse if they know how to put on a band-aid after working in the profession for years.
I found a bug in their API that did not recognize that midnight starts a new day. No one was available to help resolve that bug, so I could not complete the test (I kept getting a message stating the response is incorrect).
This turned out to be a massive waste of my time. The testing platform has a bug that caused my solution to be rejected. There was no means for me to get support around that issue.
That is very telling about their culture.
Questions
I was asked to call an API to get phone call data and group it by day. I then had to post that data back to the API. After multiple attempts, I could never get it to tell me it was correct. I spent half the allotted time before concluding that the API does not count midnight as a new day.
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Interview Statistics
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HubSpot's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
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Candidates reported having good feelings for HubSpot's Software Engineer interview process in United States.
HubSpot Work Experiences
- 1.0Good Tools, Toxic CultureSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeFebruary 27, 2022Pros: - Good and plentiful engineer tooling. Makes very high engineering productivity possible. - Decent benefits.Cons: Depending on what part of the company you land in, the codebase may be quite legacy, unstable, and loaded with messy inheritance. Company culture expects you to be constantly eager to go the extra mile for every little thing. That, plus the "always-on" expectations from being remote/flexible, can have you consistently working long hours and having to be available on weekends, in the evenings, and in the middle of the night, etc. I got stuck working on something I really didn't enjoy, but I didn't feel comfortable expressing that I hated that work due to the aforementioned points about company culture. That made it miserable to show up to work and be productive. Eventually, I was terminated without notice. There was no PIP and no conversations with my skip-level manager leading up to it, even. It was never communicated to me clearly that my employment was at stake, and I was let go with minimal severance.
- 5.0Remote Work, Cultish ManagementSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeOctober 21, 2021Pros: - Relaxed work environment - Offers fully remote/flex working schedule as soon as you startCons: - Uphill battle against Salesforce. - Upper management can feel a bit cultish (saying "we're a number 1 workplace" on loop).
- 3.0Good Pay, Low TransparencySoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesJuly 24, 2023Pros: Good pay for the work.Cons: Lots of changes with very little transparency. It's a good company where employees spend more than 5 years. Social currency is very important to getting work done, so you can feel out of the loop as a new employee.
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