Friendly, spirited, productive culture - - Technical Lead HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
Apr 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Good internal infrastructure for build & deploy, confidence in infrastructure teams * My experience has been one of trust between product management and engineering * Frontend tech stack is catching up a lot this year * Recent ACR and 3-year vesting made pay much more competitive * Generous vacation policy and culture of actually supporting taking time off * Solid work life balance * Smart, ambitious, kind coworkers * Transparent leadership * Remote, flex, or in-office work possible, and can switch every year * I love my manager, and most people I talk to report the same experience * Strong business - company has good prospects and financials * Internal mobility encouraged * Company walks the walk with DI&B

Cons

* Technical interview questions are extremely standardized so a lot of candidates google them. We need to invest in a more diverse pool of interview questions. * Mission occasionally feels a bit uninspiring, though not all the time. A possible side effect of "growing up", scaling to a bigger business - each team has less relative impact on the whole product than before * Poor 401k match * Engineering title inflation. Should use a level based system - too many "senior" engineers with 1 year experience

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5.0
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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
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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.

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