Great environment but can be unrewarding - Software Engineer HubSpot Employee Review

4.0
21 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Talented and friendly colleagues. - Management are very open to hearing your concerns and genuinely try to improve things - The whole business is very transparent - anything you want to know about how the business works is available to you. - A good place for talented grads

Cons

- Career progress can be slow, it feels like you get stuck at a level. - No matter how much they dress it up, you're building marketing automation software and that can be a bit unrewarding. - Hard to have an impact on a 300+ person engineering org as an engineer - Experience outside of HubSpot doesn't count once you get in the door - that can make the environment a bit frustrating for experienced engineers.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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