Great place to work on the web - Technical Lead HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
Nov 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Leadership cares about employee well-being and success * Technical challenges are interesting, lots of scale and hard problems with distributed systems * You own your success as an engineer * Modern tech stack and platform

Cons

* There are a lot of dogs in the office * Some people seem more interested in the perks and work/life balance than building something remarkable

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HubSpot Response
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Thanks for sharing your feedback with us, and for being a tech lead at HubSpot--it's such a valuable role, and I love the transparency and autonomy that have defined engineering even as we have grown, it's remarkable. I love the push to be excellent and have tough conversations, and I think you're spot on that we need to balance strategic investments that are remarkable with meaningful spend on the culture side of things versus overly focusing on perks, so welcome your feedback as we roll out some posts coming up on that topic and related ones--keep us honestly on how we can do better there. Thanks for your input and for all the hard work you do on behalf of our customers. -Katie

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