Interviewed at HubSpot November 2019. Noticed the position Technical Lead on Linkedin and applied. 2 days later got response from recruiter for the initial call. Got a call after weekend, all was friendly, polite and got the technical task, that I can complete on weekend. It was awesome! Because I was still employed and really busy at my job. The technical task was easy, but unfortunately my laptop broke so I did it on my wife’s machine and it was slow. The time limit is 3 hours, I did it for 1 hour and 20 minutes approx. Then I got a time to polish a code, I didn’t use it, because it was already polished, definitely better to to it as soon as possible, only then polish, because there is no time limit to that. I know it, but just hate to create ugly fast code)) Next day I was invited to onsite, I scheduled for next week. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice my recruiter email to brush up JS skills and didn’t brush it. There were 4 rounds. First JS: tricky questions in depth, and because I didn’t write JS for 2 years I was not good and seems my first interviewer didn’t like me for some reason. The second interviewer in the room was seems very novice in interview and seems just didn’t know what to do. I did very well for a person who didn’t touch JS for several years, but I thought I failed and disappointed but tried to fix the situation. The second one was system design I did extremely well and my interviewer was great, he just guided me to do it step by step. It was as conversation, not as interview. Third was coding and I extremely recommend to bring own laptop to don’t struggle with new machine (they use macs). The task was easy, but I just forgot the parameters of one method and spent some time to debug it, but still finished it in 15 minutes. Btw, you can google whatever you want. The rest I just asked questions and my interviewer was extremely friendly. The last one was director of engineering. She was fantastic and told me that my resume is the best she had ever seen and my experience so great I need to present it on TED, I even felt confused because I thought it could be sarcasm. But we got the same vision of organisation, team, had a really nice chat, really inspired that she was 6 month an SWE, even she hired as director, it is a common practice here. All interviews contain standard behavioral questions. Next was my recruiter showed me office a bit and gave a free juice and treat and told he will call in 2 days. Next day I got a call that I got an offer! I negotiate it a bit, he returned to me that day with even 2 options for the package with the right to select! I selected and next day gave verbal response to accept it. And contract was evening that day! So, all was so fast, so smooth, so polite, even negotiation was so smooth. But all the people I met were awesome. And my recruiter and director of engineering were among the factors why I accepted this offer so quick (I even didn’t wait for the interview results from another Dublin huge company).

- Recruiter screening ; briefly discusses the role and asks why you're seeking employment at Hubspot. - Codesignal: 90 minute code screen. Implement a task management system in four phases. While Hubspot encourages use of AI, use of these tools for the code challenge is strictly forbidden - clearly showing that the hiring team has a severe case of cognitive dissonance. Based on the feedback from several Hubspot employees on Blind, the TL/TL2 roles should be avoided at all costs. Many existing Hubspot employees state that verbal abuse is rife at the firm and that the tech lead role is setup for failure because its expected the role will be half engineering manager half IC without commensurate pay.