Overall a great experience! Excited to start soon. Pros: 1. The recruiter was very professional, easy to work with, and more importantly, didn't play any games. Found a great fit for me in the company (by recommending a new role when the first role wasn't the best fit), told me exactly what was coming in the interview, and was quick to respond to my questions. They put me in a position to succeed and made a fair offer in the end, and gave me the time and space to reflect on the offer. 2. The take-home assignment in my eyes was brilliant. Yes, it was a lot of work, but it also demonstrated the kind of work I would be working on at HubSpot, and that helped me make my decision to accept since I found the project interesting. HubSpot was flexible on the scope of the next steps, and the timeframe to do the analysis. 3. I was really impressed with the director who I interviewed in the final round, who answered my questions extremely well about the culture code, why they were building the team and what the next 5 years looked like, how were analysts evaluated and what were the biggest questions they were focusing on. It gave me the trust that I'm coming into a company with clear direction, and I know that my work will be valued. 4. I appreciated the confidentiality that HubSpot's team had in the process of the information presented in the interviews to better Areas of Improvement: 1. HubSpot can benefit from a platform where potential interviewees can ask questions (the only people I could interface with in the process and ask them questions, was with interviewers). While interviewers gave me space to ask questions, they were still evaluating me in the end, and having a person to just talk to and ask questions without having the pressure of feeling evaluated goes a long way in deciding whether you wanted to work for a company or not. Other companies (eg. FAANG) do this and it would further improve the already great recruiting experience. Also since Hubspot's culture code is unique, it would be a helpful platform for prospective candidates to better understand it. 2. Secondly, providing interview feedback between rounds is helpful especially since the process is long and candidates have the time and space to improve regardless of the outcome. 3. Minor but the take-home presentation interview could have been better organized. The presentation was meant to be to a stakeholder audience (i.e product manager/execs) I had two peer-interviewers for a presentation, and at times it was unclear to me the levels of detail to get into, and I had to clarify. Having a product stakeholder asking follow-ups in the room could be helpful in simulating the day-to-day presentation nature of the interview, rather than a peer pretending to be the stakeholder (the back and forth in the level of detail was a bit confusing). The aspect I did like the peer interview in the sense that I could dive into the details on how I executed the analysis, but finding a better way to organize the presentation vs. analysis methodology would be helpful.

45 minute call with HR, ~1 hour manager interview, take home case study and presentation (takes 6+ hours). There is apparently a whiteboard session after this, but I didn't make it that far. Got turned down after being told I "had good technical and coding skills but had trouble presenting my findings." I had no idea I would be presenting my code so I tried to include at least some technical concepts in my presentation, given that it was a technical interview. I guess they didn't like that! SQL questions are pretty easy (1 join max) Overall, I'd say it was good interview experience but I will not be wasting my time again on their 5 week long interview process for an entry level role. They expect you to be a subject matter expert on all your findings during the presentation - quick reminder that we have full time jobs. I aced the SQL as well and did all the bonus questions (another hour long thing you have to do while working on the case). In addition, many of the folks there, including HubSpot themselves, are very outspoken on a handful of political issues on their social media accounts. This is unprofessional and will surely be detrimental to their culture down the road.