HubSpot Developer reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(157 total reviews)
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Yamini Rangan

58% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Developer employees have rated HubSpot with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 157 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Developer professionals have a good working experience there. HubSpot is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
May 12, 2012
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Pros

- Working with dozens of other smart, motivated producers. - There is a diverse mix of talent and experience on the dev team - there are some legit front end engineers and designers, a handful of experienced people who have built serious systems before, and many young engineers who are learning as we go. - Plenty of opportunities to grow, own major projects, and solve hard problems (we have technical challenges that very few web companies ever even see) - Exposure to startup culture, decisions, and growth stages of a business - there are tons of opportunities to learn lessons from guest lecturers and some of HubSpot's own. - Management has bet the business on reinvigorating and building a successful product company - they cleaned house and are behind product and engineering 100% (it's very exciting)

Cons

- High expectations and not a lot of formal process or training programs in place for developers. - Developers must be prepared to move fast and learn by themselves. - The company is still transitioning, so there are some older legacy projects that have yet to be replaced and the rest of the company is still learning about the new products.

5.0
Mar 21, 2012
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Pros

Get to work with smart people, some even with long and successful entrepreneurial history Small Teams Lots of autonomy is given if you show competence and responsibility Limited process / Lots of time to code and be creative without endless meetings Devs get legit hardware and tools so you can focus on solving a real problem Writing a lot of code from scratch, clean slate

Cons

Work can bleed into your personal life at times Not enough lolcats of cash cats for that matter in the chat room

2.0
Jan 14, 2012
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Pros

Let me preface this by saying that I worked at HubSpot before and after a large disruptive shift in how the company perceived its employee pool. The developer pool at HubSpot is still quite talented and there are some very good developers there, or what's left of them at least. On certain teams you can work with and learn from some great developers. Company does actually let you take time off through its honor system time-off policy.

Cons

The last several months I worked at HubSpot could be gently called a witch hunt, as leadership decided they wanted a disruption in the company to reshape the development team into a specific mold - that mold being one of decisions driven more by impulse and the mantra of "just do it" rather than "just do it (conscientiously)." People who didn't buy into the new world order left, and others were unceremoniously terminated. Team cohesion became very disjointed, it was very much like seeing two separate teams - those that wanted more conscientious change, and those that told the other side to shut up and do as they say. I'd say if you're a certain type of developer - one who claims to abhor process and wants to produce prolific amounts of code which will then probably be rewritten multiple times in short order, and want your developer philosophies heavily mixed with a heavy side of uncertainty and frenetic chaos, you will fit well into the new world. The benefits, for those that care, are very much what you'd expect from a start up. The vacation policy is the selling point, and you certainly won't starve on your pay, but the promise of IPO dollars is part of the package. There is no 401k match.

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