Sliding into Toxicity - Technical Lead HubSpot Employee Review

2.0
10 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Comp is decent. Existing benefits they haven't killed yet like unlimited PTO and remote work are nice.

Cons

Take everything you heard and read about HubSpot in the past and throw it out. They once had a reputation for being an amazing place to work with lower end compensation. They've turned that on its head. They bumped the compensation and decided to actively waste time and effort witch hunting engineers for low productivity using naive, poorly thought out metrics that were never communicated as expectations. Any company focused on success would communicate new expectations, gather feedback and refine. HubSpot likes to change expectations every quarter, not communicate and then retroactively punish employees who recently got positive feedback for supporting the efforts they were requested to assist. It gives employees whiplash and has robbed them of all psychological safety.

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Cons

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2.0
22 May 2026
Recommend
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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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