Ripping apart employees mental health - Growth Specialist HubSpot Employee Review

1.0
Aug 6, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

HubSpot claims to care about it's employees, but this have proven to be far from the truth

Cons

The small biz sector is quite literally ripping apart mental health of its employees. Putting people on PIPs who are over achieving. Adding a ton of internal meetings to calendars including Fridays (no meeting Fridays?). It seems obvious that quiet firing is taking place. There is 0 collaboration, and managers are not trained to coach a team. It is expected to work over 10 hours a day to hit quotas, and even if you do you might be put on a performance plan. Management is setting everyone up for failure and is completely blind to the needs of their employees. This was not the case in other departments, small business is a nightmare. Stay far away.

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Cons

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