Expanding too fast with no proper structures in place - Customer Support Specialist HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
Aug 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great team, great culture, great employee benefits, strict hiring process so that they usually weed out people who are all talk and no brains

Cons

Culture is eroding fast due to rapid company expansion. No real growth opportunities. Work-life balance looks more like a metric to hit rather than actually caring about this balance. Employees forced to work back-to-back tasks non-stop all day and pressured to go home on time. A lot of burnout.

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HubSpot Response
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Thanks for being a HubSpot alumni, and for your feedback. Life-work fit is definitely something we are still working to evolve as we grow--the autonomy we offer everyone is great, but can also mean folks don't always unplug as much as they/we might like, so we have to find a good middle ground there. Nonetheless, we really do value employee feedback via the ENPS and other channels, so I think folks over the past six months have seen some of the meaningful changes we have made as a direct result of employee input. Sorry to hear you didn't see that first-hand--I promise it's a critical priority for what we do here and that we care deeply about getting both our broad culture and our support culture right. Sincerely, Katie

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