GoodBye Old Friend - Not the Same HubSpot - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
Sep 4, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent, phenomenal products. Customers and Partners live and breath this product and the ecosystem is strong. Marketing and Sales particularly have exceptional strength in the market. The culture built by Dharmesh and Brian was incredible but eventually every employee became a victim. Can’t keep HRBPs because the victim volume incredibly high.

Cons

Woke Inc. - Unfortunately, for all of the diversity and inclusion HubSpot espouses it is the antithesis of inclusive when it comes to welcoming non-liberal points of view. C-Suite determine new customers based on slack channel crowd-sourcing to ensure they don’t hurt employees feelings. Everyone is offered an abortion as they please without any sense that various countries and religions take offense. Employees with differing views are shunned and the internal liberal echo chamber is loud. Separately, the lay-offs were a mess. Top performers with highest marks were let go and their managers had no idea after CEO said “we aren’t doing layoffs”. People with many years at the company under their belt with families cut with no reason. Intense metric based micromanagement has created a world of cut throat cover your neck and throw anyone you can under the bus. The mission, the passion, and the camaraderie is gone as an ethos across the employee base. Employees all on an island with no support to connect with others IRL. Pay significantly lower than core competitors.

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HubSpot Response
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Thanks for your feedback and spending six years with us. We absolutely and unequivocally do not crowdsource opinions on customers from an employee Slack channel. Our decisions on customers are tied to our Acceptable Use Policy and determined by a working group with a clear mission and remit, so I do not want anyone reading this to be confused/disillusioned about that process specifically. -Katie

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