HubSpot is the "Google" of Boston - Product Manager HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
Oct 4, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Very autonomous environment with a lot smart people who are motivated. But not smart in a competitive or aggressive way. I've experienced 0 top-down pressure. I feel like I have the freedom to really dive into customer problems and be creative about solving them. HubSpot is customer obsessed and actually means it. The product hierarchy feels really flat. The culture is so friendly and genuine. People just say "hi" in the morning even if they don't know you. Simple stuff like that really matters. Also, dog friendly environment, UM WHAT. Amazing. The CEOs don't treat themselves like gods and I literally just saw one of the CEOs (Brian) walking around with his dog. They are very involved, but not in a control-freak type way. Their visions are also sound and reasonable, yet inspiring. They are smart dudes!

Cons

It's a growing company so there are some growing pains obviously associated with that. For example, not every team is on the same methodology...some practice Scrum, some don't practice anything. It's a very engineering focused culture with little project management so sometimes that's stressful because you never know what's going on or what the focus is. It feels like there's an aversion to process because they want to keep that "startup" feel. As a PM, you really gotta drive that focus or else things feel chaotic. Because each team is autonomous, you can try implementing some new stuff if your tech lead allows you to. The product culture is also learning how to measure success with releases. It seems like a new topic that they're trying to implement. There are some weird product/engineering things that need to be fixed, but it doesn't impact my positive feeling of working here. They just need to be open to new things and adopting practices from the top software companies.

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HubSpot Response
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Our founders are in fact smart and involved, so love that you called that out, and agree that sometimes the change around here feels a bit more like slightly organized chaos-you're right that more clarity around mission and alignment can and should help there. Thanks for your review and for helping HubSpot grow, I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts here! -Katie

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Cons

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