Decent colleagues, leadership treat employees like children - Engineering Lead HubSpot Employee Review

2.0
8 Feb 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people you work with will be decent quality and people are generally friendly. If you can work the politics a bit you can get some interesting projects with real business impact. Lots of growth potential, if you can get into the right area of the business. I’ve spent a lot of time here and until recently I’ve had no real reason to consider leaving.

Cons

Leadership have been on a multi year campaign to remove benefits that made HubSpot a great place to work, and position those removals as exciting opportunities for employees rather than straight forward cost cutting. A recent example is killing off the unlimited time off policy for the given reason that people weren’t taking any time off, but not mandating a minimum time off policy, and leaving it up to managers how long their reports should be allowed take off within certain unbinding “targets”. This new policy was heralded by our new head of HR as “embracing clarity”. The CEO appears absent (she has since she started, but even more so these days) and communications from her team are chaotic.

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5.0
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Pros

Work life balance Lovely colleagues Good salary pay out

Cons

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2.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

The teams you work with are phenomenal. The knowledge combination between an internal customer facing teams, engineering product development teams, and Sales are unmatched.

Cons

Excessive use of PIPs to oust employees after multiple high revenue launches, with no explanation, actual documentation, or factual data. Reviews have been adjusted to allow for terminations post pre-approved leaves. Salaries are a joke. You are always in a cover yourself mode 24/7. Management reviews are consistently a 2 or 3 out of 5 no matter what. If a team decides you aren’t in the group, management will put you on a “unofficial” PIP without telling you, in order to surprise you at a later date. Even if they are unfounded. Beware of possibility of negative backlash post launches. They will feel the need to assign blame ( such as for timelines or issues related to bugs). Regardless of performance or level of involvement. This is an enormous company with many large paths for career advancement. But micro management is rampant, leaving little room for doing the daily expectations of your actual role. This degrades your opportunities for career advancement.

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