Sales Positions Should be Called "Creative Outreach Rep" - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
Apr 22, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Dogs in the office, food, beer, lots of young employees (feels like college)

Cons

The Business Development role and Inbound Growth Specialist role are more so a "creative outreach role." Almost all training revolves around just getting someone on the phone. The best performing BDR's were promised a promotion in 10 months but it really ends up being at least 13. I don't think the product was that good and Corporate Sales is a failing segment. DO NOT work in the corporate segment at HubSpot.

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HubSpot Response
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Sorry to hear that your time at HubSpot was less stellar than you expected--you're right that for many folks it ends up being 12 months to a promotion, so we've worked to set better expectations there up front in the recruitment process. With that said, our BDR program has a ton of learning and coaching opportunities that we believe really help serve as a catalyst for a career in sales at HubSpot and beyond, so I would push back a bit that our BDR program is simply around outreach. Nonetheless, I appreciate the feedback-we'll use it as we always do to improve and grow our experience and expectation-setting for BDRs coming in. Sincerely, Katie

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