Breakneck growth, but at what cost? - Technical Lead HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
Feb 15, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Company still walks the walk on work-life balance and DI&B

Cons

The company is hiring new engineers at a breakneck pace and putting a huge amount of stress on our onboarding, mentorship, and management capabilities. There are simply not enough qualified managers to oversee these new teams, and existing ones are overburdened and burnt out. We are still waiting to see what changes the company makes to compensation in March, but the lack of communication and transparency throughout the process has shown a lack of concern for employees who are on the fence about whether this is all worth it. I can only imagine how it is for those not fortunate enough to be paid as highly as engineers and don't know whether they'll be paid a livable wage in light of ever increasing cost of living.

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5.0
May 4, 2026
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Pros

Work life balance Lovely colleagues Good salary pay out

Cons

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2.0
May 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The teams you work with are phenomenal. The knowledge combination between an internal customer facing teams, engineering product development teams, and Sales are unmatched.

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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