HubSpot Frontend Engineer interview experience

The first technical round was a JavaScript deep dive with an interviewer whose explanations weren’t clear to me, and I spent time clarifying things that should’ve been straightforward. By the time I got traction, it felt like I’d lost momentum.

The second round was a coding task: merging two sorted lists and returning the top k elements. Despite the earlier confusion, I solved it in about ten minutes using two pointers, and it matched the “easy” label in my notes.

The third round was scheduled for the next day, but HR canceled it after informing me I didn’t pass the first round. I was