Awesome benefits, fantastic products, but not very diverse and very saturated territories - Account Executive HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
Jan 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

One of the best companies when it comes to benefits, they take really good care of you, have monthly contests, take you to dinners and happy hours on the reg, and provide great health benefits. The people at HubSpot are also very kind and outgoing, so it's not hard to fit in for the most part. Brian Halligan is the man, very motivating, very enthusiastic, and really cares about his employees, as does Dharmesh. Leadership team is excellent, you'll learn more than you could imagine during your time at HubSpot.

Cons

The sales team is huge, and it shouldn't be. I think there's a bit over 500 sales reps, and HubSpot really only needs about 200. The territories are extremely saturated, you're given a few zip codes to work with no matter what vertical of business you go into (small biz, corporate, non profit, etc.) You'll spend about 80% of your time prospecting to companies that have already been reached out to by other reps at HubSpot, so to gain new business can be very difficult unless you dedicate 80 hours of prospecting each week. The sales cycle is long but you have support on all ends to help you finish. Would not recommend being an account exec, but if you start off as an SDR you will definitely learn a lot. They keep hiring more and more account execs which is leading to more than 70% of the sales org not meeting their quota. It is also not very diverse, but then again, not a lot of companies in Boston are. Most of the people are of course white but it's hard to get other nationalities when that's all that is available in Boston. I was one of the few people of color in the entire organization, so of course I felt like we weren't represented very well. Out of the 1000 plus employees, I would say abut 30 or so aren't white. Having said that, I never felt out of place or insulted or anything, everyone is very welcoming. It would just be nice to have more minorities in the crew.

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HubSpot Response
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I love that you learned a lot from your manager while you were here, and that you liked learning from our leadership team, thanks for sharing your perspective. I'm bummed to hear that you felt the sales team is saturated--while it's absolutely true that we are scaling and growing the sales team, the majority of our reps are at or above attainment, so we work really hard to ensure that reps succeed in their roles. On diversity, we are sharing our data externally on that front, but needless to say we continue to invest in ensuring we scale as a business and become more diverse and inclusive as we grow, so I hope you will continue to see and feel the impact there as we grow, even as an alumni. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts here, and hope to see you at a future Alumni event! -Katie

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