Recently I interviewed for a senior software engineer position at Hubspot. I had already cleared 2 coding rounds before being invited on-site and the feedback of the 2 rounds was also very positive. In the on-site , I had 3 rounds. The first was a DB design round. I felt I did pretty well in schema design, DB selection (based on the use case) and also writing queries. Post that , the interviewer asked me to not to use specific in-built functionalities in SQL query and try to come up with alternative. I tried but was only partially correct. Later with hint I was able to get the answer. My other 2 rounds (system design and the discussion with engineering director) both went smooth and great. It's been almost a week and I haven't heard back from the recruiter. How long does it take to hear back from the recruiter about the final feedback(I am an international applicant and would need VISA sponsorship)? Also , can I be rejected as I was not able to readily come up with solution in DB design round?
I have an offer from Hubspot, but hesitant to take it up. How is the company when compared to FAANG (w.r.t day to day work) ?
How long did it took post interview to get the offer?
Teams have lots of autonomy and ownership. Very little top down anything. Lots of opportunity to learn and grow quickly. Facebook/Google/Netflix don't have particularly large Boston presence so I don't have a lot of data points on how they compare. But we have a ton of people from Amazon who like HubSpot much better. Almost never see people go the opposite direction.
Was this for a backend or data infrastructure team. What kind of coding rounds did you have. I’m only wondering as this sounds close to facebook’s Data engineer interview process and it doesn’t look like HubSpot has a DE title.
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By international applicant do you mean you're in the US on OPT/H1-B or will you need L1? That aside, it sounds to me like you did really well. Recruiters might just be busy we're hiring like crazy right now so I'd say give it another week. Good luck!