Wears its culture on its sleeve. - Software Engineer HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
Apr 6, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Hands down the most transparent company I've heard of. Board decks, financials, the role of gender in the company. All of it is on the very active and thoughtful wiki. Wears its culture on its sleeve. If you read these reviews and think "yeah, I'm up for the challenge" then it's great. Centralized authority and trust. Management is careful to not be top down. Exciting, if sometimes disorganized. Feels like a 40 person company. Pre-IPO run-up is an exhilarating.

Cons

You break it you buy it. Authority to do your own thing means you own success and failure. Culture can be a bit fratty. Reliance on some superstars can feel like favoritism.

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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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