i have a HubSpot SWE recruiter screen next week for a junior-ish role and honestly i'm spiraling a little trying to figure out what to prep. i see people saying it's easier than FAANG, but that bar is not super helpful for me as a point of reference.
is it more leetcode medium grind or more practical/realistic stuff? does the behavioral piece actually carry weight or is it mostly the coding that determines if you move on? any recent experience would really help, the posts i'm finding online are from like 2022.
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backend_bekah
from what i saw (interviewed there about 8 months ago for a mid-level backend role): the recruiter screen is totally behavioral, no code. the technical screen after that was one coding problem and one system design. the coding problem was solidly leetcode medium. not tricky, not trivial. clean solution that works and you can explain matters more than being clever.
bootcamp_bri
ok this is actually really reassuring. do you remember what the system design question was like? was it more high-level architecture or did they want you to get into specific tech choices?
backend_bekah
high level design with some drilling on bottlenecks. they didn't need me to name specific databases, just reason through tradeoffs. if you can talk through 'here's why i'd shard this' you're in good shape.
market_realist
the behavioral weight at HubSpot is higher than at most mid-market SaaS companies i've interviewed at. don't sleep on it. i've heard of people with strong coding screens not moving past the panel because the behavioral answers felt thin.