Great team and tech, but poor leadership and pay - Software Engineer HubSpot Employee Review

1.0
Jul 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Great people and teammates. - Strong technical stack and excellent internal tooling. - Fully remote, as long as you're based in one of the supported countries. (USA, UK, Ireland)

Cons

- Leadership often feels dismissive and tends to gaslight employees. - Increasing pressure and expectations year after year. - 3 consecutive years of benefits and perks being reduced or removed. - Below-market compensation. - Salary increases and recognition for your work are nonexistent unless you're in the top 5%. - performance culture boosted by AI-obsession. - Everything revolves around AI: internal initiatives, projects, the way people work, and the tools. If AI isn't your primary tool for every task, you won't make it

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5.0
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, everyone is so understanding and supportive. Culture is fun and energizing, people seem happy to be here. There's lots of ways to get involved outside of your day job. Awesome benefits and flexibility - love the remote first work environment, week of rest, open PTO, etc. Robust tech stack - lots of tools available for me to do my job.

Cons

Experiencing some growing pains but leadership seems receptive to feedback on it.

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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