HubSpot lives up to the hype - Senior Software Engineer II HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
Apr 25, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

By almost any measure, HubSpot is an excellent place to work. - Incredibly smart and kind coworkers - Internal culture aligns with the culture code (HubSpot walks the walk) - Lots of cool things to work on - Awesome developer tooling, some really nice stuff that I wish other jobs had - Everything on the front-end is moving to Typescript - Interesting technical presentations and discussions happening each week - Free book every month (separate from your stipend

Cons

This is all front-end specific since that's where I work. HubSpot made some questionable decisions on how their javascript dependencies are bundled/published internally. This means normal JS tooling does not work. If you develop for the front-end, you are forced to use VSCode and a HubSpot-specific plugin to get autocompletion, intellisense, debugging etc. - no live/hot reloading of any kind - no async/await - no option chaining `thing?.nested?.someKey` - can't use your preferred editor

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HubSpot Response
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Thanks for being a Senior SWE with us and for the detailed write-up--I think the cons are actually helpful in their specificity for folks considering a technical role, so thanks for sharing that. On remote, I think that's fair feedback--our culture of autonomy makes it hard for our team to push on things like this, but I am hopeful with the combination of remote meetups and a bunch of the hybrid toolkits our team has put together that this gets meaningfully better with some help. Appreciate your feedback here! -Katie

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5.0
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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

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