HubSpot reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(4,171 total reviews)
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Yamini Rangan

63% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

HubSpot has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,171 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HubSpot employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Oct 28, 2025
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Pros

good culture, good people, lots of autonomy

Cons

fine pay hard to make it up market, pretty challenging to hit quota

5.0
Oct 28, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I’ve been at HubSpot for nearly a year now and I can honestly say it’s one of the best environments I’ve ever worked in. There’s a real sense of independence: I can choose whether I work from home or go into the office, which makes a huge difference to work–life balance. What I appreciate most is how transparent everything is. Performance and career progression are based entirely on merit and clearly defined goals. Your success truly depends on your own actions, not on politics or favours, which makes it a very fair and motivating place to be. Management is highly qualified, approachable, and genuinely invested in helping us learn and grow. When leadership steps in on larger deals, the support we get is top tier - backed by experienced, capable people. The sales team is full of ambitious yet kind and down-to-earth colleagues. And I love how the company actually lives up to its values - internally as well. Honestly, I can say without hesitation that I enjoy my job! I feel valued and I would 100% recommend HubSpot to anyone looking for a place in which hard work and growth truly get rewarded.

Cons

We do have to outbound to new prospects ourselves - more so in small business than in mid-market or corporate, who get BDR support - but it is part of the job nonetheless.

3.0
Oct 27, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• Fantastic internal dev tools • High-octane, smart, largely friendly coworkers • Commitment to flexibility of fully remote working culture • Focus on continual employee growth, with financial and career upside

Cons

• High performance culture has only gotten more intense over time • Widely unpopular productivity metrics that track weekly PR count, Slack channel support requests resolved, individual vs. team velocity • Management model of tech lead + EM means the person actually responsible for performance and compensation reviews barely interacts with their engineers on a daily basis (especially when fully remote) • On-call load can get horrendous between PagerDuty alerts and support channel questions • Campy, inauthentic top level leadership trying to run a large, mature public company like a 2010s era Silicon Valley startup HubSpot has become obsessed with squeezing higher productivity out of their software engineers, going from literal "green squares" tracking on GitHub to a set of manufactured velocity metrics on an internal dashboard where managers can compare individual performance to that of other members of the team. Look around at the other reviews on here and peer online company discussion platforms. Talented and hard working engineers are being PIPed and let go with poor justification of not meeting delivery expectations based on highly subjective interpretation of contribution metrics. The competitive environment breeds manufactured stress and discontent within the engineering org due to the constant push for development speed at all costs. The caveat here is, while all engineering teams are tracked by the same performance metrics, it's largely up to your relationship with your tech lead and your manager to bring context to those numbers when it comes time to evaluating individual contributor performance. There are pockets of HubSpot engineering that, while maybe not "chill", are at least more supportive or have better team collaboration dynamics that can make it possible to thrive within the system.

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