Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at HubSpot with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HubSpot overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HubSpot as a Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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My process consisted of the Recruiter Screen, Take Home, 2 System Design, 1 Algo, 1 Behavior. The take home was a timed JSON reformat & POST situation. I was given a general gist of what to expect for the algo & system design rounds by the recruiter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
shortest substring in a string -- devise an algo in any language inside a web-based IDE to find the shortest substring. I used a window function.
First there was a Phone screen with the recruiter and then 3 rounds: 1 for coding, and 2 for system design. In the 2nd system design round interviewers were not quite helpful, they did provide hints but it was not clear what they were expecting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge Two Sorted Lists, using simple arrays and not a linked list class
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at HubSpot (Philadelphia, PA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Coding Project with 3 hour time limit. Can be done in any language and you work in your own IDE setup. Get JSON data from GET endpoint and process the data to their specification and send that data to their submission endpoint.