Pros
- Incredible pace at product development and innovation, I've not seen a tech company until HubSpot that has product sprints going out on a DAILY basis. [Super important for any tech company to be ahead of the curve and thinking about setting the industry benchmark for what's next]
- Everything is in the Wiki. From the latest marketing experiments (which in my opinion, are pieces written 10x better than any you'd find on growthhackers.com), to the Management team's targets, focus, thoughts, and priorities. I can spend hours going down the rabbit hole in this encyclopedia of knowledge from the smartest people globally. There's best practices and playbooks all documented, learnings and experiences from individuals who've been there done that, that we recently needed to have someone's full time job as a Wiki Manager to organise this world of information.
- Culture. From projects working on diversity and inclusion, to ensuring that there are plentiful employee engagement activities, there's a lot of activities planned, if only you have time, bother to attend, show up, and engage in them.
- Learning. This spans not just your own job scope, but also personal development, and future career growth. There are just so much resources available to tap on, like taking Managerial lessons if you intend to be a Manager one day, to attending workshops like becoming a trusted advisor. Seriously, it doesn't get better than this. There's $5k tuition grant and a free Kindle books program. HubSpot really invests A LOT in educating employees to be the smartest of the lot.
If you are looking for somewhere to stand, HubSpot is a giant. Anyone driven enough is invited to stand on its shoulders to look further than what one can on him/herself.
Cons
One of the biggest cons of a big company is that there are cliques and silos formed within teams. Humans tend to gravitate toward similar people with similar experiences. One of the ways we deal with that is to play musical chairs and physically move people around at their desks so different teams get to be near each other.
