HubSpot Software Engineer interview experience

Before I got too deep into technical work, I had reminders that the behavioral portion mattered a lot, and that I needed a structured way to answer—using clear STAR-style examples that tied back to their core principles.

Once I reached the technical rounds, the structure was pretty familiar: an hour-long programming interview alongside another hour for system design. The system design prompt that stuck in my head was Netflix-style—building out infrastructure involving movies and series. The coding challenge was also framed like an algorithmic task, where the goal was to display the most