Challenging work but compensated with good culture and WLB - Senior Software Engineer HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
Oct 11, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Remote first which is exactly what I wanted - I use and love the product and the fact that we get an enterprise level account for personal use is fantastic. I feel very invested to make a good product as a customer. - WLB is fantastic. I am encouraged to take time off and I don't feel bad about doing it. 4-week sabbatical every 5 years is huge. Product team also gets 2 weeks of rest a year, one week during first week of July and one week during last week of December. - A lot of growth opportunities. Teams are kept small (5-6 max) so that there's a lot of chances to grow in skills and lead to help grow your career. If you're looking to advance, this is the place for you. - Company actually tries to embody the values. For example, upper management was Transparent about ways they fell short in particular areas and are taking employee feedback seriously to make a change - Pay is good for the company size and market (at least in Product Eng) - Internal tooling is great. They built their own CI/CD so that devs can focus on writing code rather than fixing a DevOps system. And they have great UIs

Cons

- Work is challenging and can feel like a treadmill increasing in speed. If you're not ready for it, it can be tough. BUT there's a lot of things that are changing to help that like the weeks of rest, unlimited PTO, and more - Homogenous tech stack (can be both a pro and a con). All back end runs on Java 8/11, Dropwizard framework, and the same CI/CD. This is great if you want to move teams but it's hard to pioneer a new technology. - No cost of living raises or annual bonuses. You can get stock refreshers if you perform well but I personally would prefer an annual bonus determined by company and individual goals.

avatar
HubSpot Response
4y
Thanks for being a Senior SWE with HubSpot, and for the super detailed and thoughtful review, particularly on our tech stack. On compensation, as I'm sure you've read, we have a bunch of stuff rolling out this spring-it doesn't address all of your pushes, but hopefully gets us closer there. Thanks for the feedback and for writing this review! Sincerely, Katie

Explore other reviews about HubSpot

5.0
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, everyone is so understanding and supportive. Culture is fun and energizing, people seem happy to be here. There's lots of ways to get involved outside of your day job. Awesome benefits and flexibility - love the remote first work environment, week of rest, open PTO, etc. Robust tech stack - lots of tools available for me to do my job.

Cons

Experiencing some growing pains but leadership seems receptive to feedback on it.

2.0
May 22, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The teams you work with are phenomenal. The knowledge combination between an internal customer facing teams, engineering product development teams, and Sales are unmatched.

Cons

Excessive use of PIPs to oust employees after multiple high revenue launches, with no explanation, actual documentation, or factual data. Reviews have been adjusted to allow for terminations post pre-approved leaves. Salaries are a joke. You are always in a cover yourself mode 24/7. Management reviews are consistently a 2 or 3 out of 5 no matter what. If a team decides you aren’t in the group, management will put you on a “unofficial” PIP without telling you, in order to surprise you at a later date. Even if they are unfounded. Beware of possibility of negative backlash post launches. They will feel the need to assign blame ( such as for timelines or issues related to bugs). Regardless of performance or level of involvement. This is an enormous company with many large paths for career advancement. But micro management is rampant, leaving little room for doing the daily expectations of your actual role. This degrades your opportunities for career advancement.

15
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All