HubSpot reviews

Depending on what part of the company you land in, the codebase may be quite legacy, unstable, and loaded with messy inheritance. Company culture expects you to be constantly eager to go the extra mile for every little thing and that plus the "always-on" expectations from being remote/flexible can have you consistently working long hours and having to be available on weekends, in the evenings, middle of the night, etc. I got stuck working on something I really didn't enjoy, but I didn't feel comfortable expressing that I hated that work due to aforementioned points about company culture and that made it miserable to show up to work and be productive. Eventually was terminated without notice. No PIP and no conversations with my skip-level manager leading up to it even. Was never communicated to me clearly that my employment was at stake and was let go with minimal severance.

As HubSpot grew, and went remote, it could not keep up with the pace of growth. It became expected that because you were home and had your laptop you would be online. This "always on" culture led to many repeated slack messages and emails all hours of the day. The product team especially suffered from severe burnout and bloat. The entire product org scaled at an incredible rate in the last few years while ambitious and aggressive initiatives were placed across teams with little direction or management. I often found myself tasked with a new massive initiative while in the middle of the current one at the time. This led to teams constantly rushing out work to keep up with the pace of what was expected for Inbound. It often felt like middle management did nothing but rubber stamp these initiatives putting the teams below them in the uncomfortable position of sprinting through deadline after deadline barely keeping up with demand. Compensation outside of engineering was not great. 401k match was not great either. HubSpot relied heavily on the in-office benefits, but with those all gone thanks to being remote the (very) small remote stipend was not enough to replace them.