Benefits still solid but exhausted by AI chatter - Senior Software Engineer II HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
Mar 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Colleagues still pretty nice - Flexible vacation (rather than unlimited) still seems to be open enough to taking holidays past your contractual days - Compensation pretty good for the workload (depending on the team) - For the moment probably still worth joining depending on how you land with your team but benefits etc. have definitely been slowly slipping over the past 1-2 years

Cons

- Upper management in all sectors are obsessed with AI and it's starting to creep into performance management where you're expected to use it/talk about it or else you're not growing - Generally tiresome US-focus and Kool Aid vibes which has always been present - Engineers not compensated separated for on-call unless you're in France (due to legal requirement) - Quite restrictive on employees showing any support for Palestine even in dedicated Slack channel communities through communication "guardrails"

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HubSpot Response
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Thanks for sharing your experience at HubSpot. As we grow, our priorities and values as an org evolve. Whitney recently published the latest on those engineering values. (visit our product blog for the link) We are open about our stance AI adoption and on-call policies. We hope our teams have deep curiosity around new technologies, like AI, and feel ownership of the products they build and will support them. That’s part of the job, part of our values, and how we stay competitive. We’re focused on our mission of building products that help millions of customers grow, and mission aligned teams will get us there. - Engineering Leadership

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