Very long, slow process, but I believe that means HubSpot is very careful who they hire. First I had a call with the recruiter, who was awesome with following up and answering my questions throughout the entire process. My chat with them only happened maybe a week and a half after they originally reached out to me. Then it was another week and a half until I got a call with the hiring manager. From there, I got regular updates from the recruiter about the status of my application, but that the hiring manager was still evaluating who would go to the next round. It was almost 4 weeks until I got a final answer. The next stage of the interview would have been an assessment (technical) and then a loop with 5 people.

The first interview was amazing and actually made me really excited about the job. It was a dialog. The second interview was unpleasant, after I said two sentences the interviewer totally disconnected. Fine, judged me quickly that I'm not a good fit or he didn't like me. But then for the rest of the interview, I had to sweat to get his attention - he looked so uninterested and like he was about to yawn, so disrespectful. If you think someone did not answer your question, just ask again and ground the other person. Help - we are the ones nervous and overexcited, you're at home in your cozy jumper not giving a 'you know what'. Just felt unfair. Three interviews with Hubspot, two unpleasant - maybe I'm not good enough, or maybe you're just thinking you're so much better than others that you can't focus for 30 minutes. Wish you all the best.

This consisted of the various segments: 1. Initial phone interview with the recruiter -> going over the CV and work experience 2. Interview with the hiring manager -> defining what a Business Systems Analyst does and the past experience that overlaps with the role 3. Interview with 2 general Product Managers -> stakeholder management, raising issues, working with a Product Manager, various scenario based questions 4. Interview with 2 Business Systems Analysts -> database activity, various scenario based questions, competency questions 5. Interview with 2 Product Managers that I'd be work with -> going over the CV and work experience, stakeholder management, various scenario based questions Each segment allowed for questions to be asked at the end.