My interview experience was one month long and consisted of a phone interview with the Editorial Manager, an interview with the Executive Recruiter, an intensive editing assessment, and a day of four 30-minute interviews with two non-editorial team members, the Editorial Manager (again), and the Director. Although I understand the feeling of how an interview went is naturally subjective, I felt that I got positive feedback in every stage. I even asked the Director (the last interview) if there was anything missing from my background that was concerning in terms of what they were looking for, and his words were “We need to give everyone an equitable interviewing experience so we’ll need to wrap up interviews and make an official decision next week, but from a resume/skill set/goals standpoint, I think this is the job for you.” The Editorial Manager (who would have been my supervisor if I got the role) and I seemed to hit it off both times we spoke, and the two HR staff who coordinated scheduling for the interviews and email communication were overly friendly, so I left this process feeling as though I had a really good chance. It was overall very positive and friendly, but I think they actually overdid it because in the end they just led me on. When I didn’t hear back a week after the final interviews, I sent a follow-up email and was told they went with “some candidates” who had more experience than I did. Throughout the process, they made it seem like I had made it to a final round with only a few candidates left. It’s fantastic that HubSpot has such an inclusive and collaborative culture to boast, but don’t extend that to applicants unless you’re serious about actually hiring them (especially since the process takes so much time and effort on the applicant’s end).