Hi guys, I am preparing for the hubspot interview, and I am having a very hard time knowing if the answers I am preparing are going to be good or not. I am familiar with the principles, but I am not really sure what constitutes a good answer. For example, one of the sample questions is to tell them about a time you failed (I assume this is for the growth mindset interview). I have an example (paraphrasing heavily here) where I was working on a project with customer impact that had cross functional dependencies (other teams waiting on it), but there was a very weird bug that took a couple days to debug, and I didn't raise this concern until like the day before the deadline. So I went past the deadline by a few days, and this had a ripple effect since I had to start my other important work later, and it affected the other teams deadlines as well. I learned the importance of raising blocker issues earlier, giving more accurate estimates, etc. This project overall took like 1.5 weeks for the first iteration During the interview i'd use the STAR format, but do you guys think this is a good example? Do every single one of my examples need to be really big projects spanning multiple months? For another principle customer centricity, they may ask "Tell me about a time you went above and beyond for customer, what was the result for the business and/or that customer?" I have an example where I came up with a new way to test our services in dev envs, which improved our teams developer productivity, another one where I volunteered for a task and did it, which stopped us from retaining customer data after account deletion (there was press about this, so this was impactful), and another where I came up with a better solution which fits customer needs better. The thing is, these projects are all relatively small from like a few days to a week, and I don't have metrics for them. The question asks "what was the result".. which makes me think they want metrics in these questions? What do you guys think? Any advice is much appreciated, thanks y'all :) #hubspot #sweinterview #swe #interview
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This isn't specific to HubSpot but I love Madeline Mann's interview prep: https://www.madelinemann.com/post/best-answers-to-the-10-most-asked-interview-questions-interview-questions-and-answers Best of luck!
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