Find peace past the kool-aid - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
Jun 21, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Flexibility with working hours. As long as you get your job done, no one bats an eyelid at what time you're online - Great level of autonomy with projects and day-to-day - Good compensation (for Singapore) - Lots of learning opportunities - Cross-department interaction is strong and always highly encouraged

Cons

- Requires a great level of self-direction (can be a pro, too). Some colleagues struggle with this in terms of career growth or when they face ambiguous questions with no clear-cut questions - Dynamic and constant learning can be a tiring (can be a pro, too) - Strong sales culture, very cult-like, so some people may find the energy level quite disruptive - Some Product teams are messy, so morale is affected

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HubSpot Response
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Lots of strong feedback here, thanks for taking the time to share it. On the design director, he's still here doing amazing work for us, and we just hired another external leader on that team, so I hope you'll be happy with the progress there. I don't love hearing that you feel the sales team is "cult-like"--we certainly have a strong culture of sales professionals, but cult-like is not the objective at all. On Product teams, I'd love to know how you're experiencing from Singapore if you have time/interest in sending me a note so we can proactively address it. With regard to learning and the need for self-direction, I think your pros and cons are more than fair--thanks for helping our team grow in Singapore and I look forward to seeing the team when I'm there in August. Sincerely, Katie

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