Company profile
HashiCorp
HashiCorp builds Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, and Packer - the de-facto infrastructure-as-code and secrets stack - and is being acquired by IBM. Interviews are remote-first, async-friendly, and emphasise written communication, with a take-home that maps to real product surface and a Tao-of-HashiCorp values conversation.
Interview process
With roughly 2K employees and headquarters in San Francisco, US, HashiCorp hires through dedicated recruiting teams, and loops at companies of this size tend to be structured, with each round scored against a written rubric. Interviewers are usually trained engineers and managers rather than the hiring manager alone, and candidates for backend engineer, security engineer, devops engineer roles typically face separate rounds for core skills, design or case thinking, and behavioral fit. Open a role below for the questions and focus areas specific to that function.
Questions and process by role
HashiCorp hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
engineering - Security engineer
Security engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
security - DevOps engineer
DevOps engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
infrastructure - Site reliability engineer
Site reliability engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
infrastructure - Database engineer
Database engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
engineering - Developer relations engineer
Developer relations engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
engineering - Elixir engineer
Elixir engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
engineering - Embedded engineer
Embedded engineer interview questions and process at HashiCorp.
engineering
Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for HashiCorp's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not HashiCorp offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
HashiCorp holds a 4.1 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.1