HubSpot Backend Engineer interview experience

For me, it was a CodeSignal-style test, and I also saw that there was an option to skip an OA if there was a recent prior score from another company—either way, the early technical gate was clearly the first filter. After that, I had a short recruiter chat and then a longer technical sequence.

My technical portion ended up being split into coding and systems design: one hour in a LeetCode-ish style format and one hour on systems design. In my process, once I passed the initial recruiter stage, there was also a later technical deep dive that leaned on a project I’d worked on in the prior