Disappointed engineer - Software Engineer HubSpot Employee Review

1.0
Aug 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company does have aggressive growth plans, or at least that is the way they lured top talent like me from the bay area. People are relatively nice and work is not too fast paced. You get the standard perks such as coffee, breakfast, beer etc. that have become table stakes now.

Cons

Work is not as exciting as I had thought and the product managers are just some rude East coast MBAs. The quality of the software engineering talent in the company is actually pretty bad compared to the two other companies I have worked with. It does not feel or work like a start-up. So don't let them fool you with "start-up culture". It is the same messy office politics culture you can expect in a badly run mature company.

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HubSpot Response
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Sorry to hear that HubSpot didn't meet your expectations--our goal is for the rhetoric and the reality of working here to be one and the same. Would welcome a conversation if you're open to having one on how we can improve on this.

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