Unparalleled Medical Benefits in Singapore but HR is a Disgrace - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

HubSpot has one of the best medical plans, which does not require a health screening to be eligible. Meaning pre-existing conditions and illnesses are covered too. Dependents not only includes spouses and children, but you can also add your girlfriend/boyfriend or partner onto your medical plan with the same exact coverage too. Majority of my colleagues are wonderful people and many of us have formed great friendships due to the culture of the office. We have team-bonding outings and activities, some sponsored by the company and some by our manager/team budget. We have a well stocked pantry with snacks, ice cream, fruits, drinks, cold brew coffee, cold brew tea and even beer - all for free! Not to mention a free weekly lunch on Thursdays for the whole office, which sometimes doesn't feed enough of us, but it is free so can't complain. We have a prayer room for our muslim colleague, we have a mother's room, a meditation room which we all use as a nap room, and we have a fully equipped gym. Having unlimited leave is communicated verbally, but it is not in our contract, as this is only applicable for top performers and if your workload is manageable in your absence. Our contract states 18 days annual leave, which is still pretty good if you add in all the public holidays.

Cons

HubSpot proclaims to be a company with HEART but that is not the case, which is a let-down as I was led to believe otherwise. Employees and Managers are not treated equally or held to the same professional standards. There is also a bias between local and foreign employees. Managers who should be on our UGJ (HubSpot's Use Good Judgement Policy) plan due to their insensitive unethical behavior, comments and action - do not, but instead wins a trip to our annual President's Club and not because of hard work but due to riding on the coattails of the team. Many complains have been made from various people to HR but our HRBP does nothing. There is no consequence to bad behavior and it is made to seem like we are sensitive and should not finger point, and instead we should be the ones to reflect on our own behavior and not nit-pick. When HRBP follows up, it is just a formality, to document, and it is a waste of our time as our feedback gets brushed under the rug, because HRBP has more important things to do. HRBP is hardly in the office, we all wonder what our HRBP actually does. HR is suppose to play a big role in mitigating conflicts. Conversations with HR are expressed as confidential but that is not the case, whatever feedback you've shared gets passed onto your manager. There is no trust and no psychological safety whatsoever. When you try to set up time to talk with HRBP, it either gets rescheduled because HRBP out of office or never happens at all because it gets forgotten and you are left hanging wondering, "What is the point?". Our HRBP tends to get emotional and has expressed that receiving personal feedback is not a strong suit. How then are we supposed to communicate to our HRBP if there are certain things we are unhappy with HR on? Just a few days ago, I saw someone left a feedback on Glassdoor titled "Shady practice being rewarded". Our HRBP should have flagged that AE to management and put that AE on our UGJ plan but did not, if that AE was on the UGJ plan, promotion would not have been triggered and people will not be angrier at this outright scam. Now the whole Singapore office is talking about it, even though no names were mentioned, we know who it is and it is driving morale down. If our HRBP claims to not know about this issue with that AE (which has been happening over an extended period of time and isn't a one -off case), it can be believable, because our HRBP does not bother to build relationships with employees or help resolve internal conflicts, but instead panders only to senior leadership.

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HubSpot Response
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Lots to take in here, a few notes below: 1) Promotion criteria in sales are not determined by the HR team, nor is President's Club, so while I'm sorry you are frustrated, those two particular issues are unrelated to your frustration with our team. 2) Just because you don't see/hear a BP flagging something doesn't mean it isn't happening--I spoke with our head of international on the issue you flagged this week--we've been laser focused collectively on employee safety and wellness with regard to coronavirus, so that's been the top priority of our team and the JAPAC leadership teams above all else in the last several weeks. 3) We care a lot about fairness, both the perception of fairness and the practice of it in our promotion criteria, so I can't comment specifically on the issue you highlighted above for employee privacy reasons but it's something we value highly and actively follow up on. Finally, I'll just say that we have a full HR team in JAPAC for a reason, and we actively offer for folks to talk to other folks on our global team if they are interested in doing so, either in region or out of region if there are concerns or a frustration with follow through, so if you have feedback to share, there are a bunch of options and channels to share through and we welcome it. Sorry to hear you're frustrated here, this was tough to read and respond to, but hopefully we can help work through it. -Katie

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