At the beginning, the process seemed straightforward enough. After the initial call, I got a link to the take-home coding task, which takes around 3 hours to complete. The task itself is a glorified Leetcode-style challenge with a little bit more context. On top of that, HubSpot has a timer on their platform which means you can’t take a break. I haven’t heard back from them until two weeks after submitting the solution, they sent me a generic rejection email. I definitely expected more feedback after spending so much time on it and it made me reevaluate my attitude towards take-home tasks once again.