Maybe free gourmet coffee and smoothies.
The company was flooded with junior engineers who were just prompted to Tech Lead positions. They knew pretty much nothing about software design and constantly exercised poor technical judgment. Many times, they don't know how to solve problems and focus on unimportant and trivial stuff. I would imagine HubSpot is probably their first job out of college, and ironically, they hold some bad practices (software design anti-patterns) as golden rules for them.
The company doesn't need so many "tech leads". Especially the leads like to give others funny and poor "advice" just because they feel they are in the so-called lead positions. We need real, experienced people who have more industry experience and can solve problems.
They were very thorough, but they are looking for a very specific type of developer, which I didn't fit into.
Initial discussion with HR. Technical Assessment: This is a timed assessment done on your own. Four 1-hour interviews, a full day of interviews with two high-level design questions and a LeetCode question (even though they say they are against thes
I applied online by submitting my resume. I was then given a link to their coding challenge, which involved retrieving data, parsing data, and posting data to an endpoint they provided. This challenge had a time limit of 3 hours, and I was able to c
They were very thorough, but they are looking for a very specific type of developer, which I didn't fit into.
Initial discussion with HR. Technical Assessment: This is a timed assessment done on your own. Four 1-hour interviews, a full day of interviews with two high-level design questions and a LeetCode question (even though they say they are against thes
I applied online by submitting my resume. I was then given a link to their coding challenge, which involved retrieving data, parsing data, and posting data to an endpoint they provided. This challenge had a time limit of 3 hours, and I was able to c