HubSpot reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(4,153 total reviews)
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Yamini Rangan

65% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

HubSpot has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,153 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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2.0
Nov 15, 2021

The burnout is real.

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Pros

Great benefits. I work with highly-intelligent people. The dad-jokes slack channel. My mentors.

Cons

I've been at HubSpot for 6 months and I've never felt such burnout before. The workload is unsustainable and when I bring this up to my manager, I hear, "Oh that's totally normal, all new hires feel that way." This baffles me -- if everyone feels overwhelmed, why don't we recalibrate the workload/expectations? I see my team members editing Google Docs at 11, 12 at night on the regular, which indicates to me that the work/life balance on my team (in particular) is lacking. I dreamed of working at HubSpot for almost 5 years. Now that I'm here, I'm realizing that it's not a good fit for me, which is crushing.

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HubSpot Response
4y
Sorry to hear this feedback--as you know, we are doing a lot to focus on burnout, so I'm hoping you've spoken with your HRBP on this as we'd love to help understand what's happening on your direct team if you're open to sharing it. -Katie
1.0
Feb 21, 2019
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Pros

Benefits (unlimited vacation and sick time, ability to work remotely if need be)

Cons

-Not enough time in the day to be both a thorough support specialist that SFTC, and gain skills in a specialized area -Most reps work 9 hours a day and are praised for working over time, despite minimum pay. working overtime seems to imply you are better (from a peer to peer standpoint, and manager to employee) -Inappropriate to set a metric for "tickets" as opposed to "customers" at such a high number. I think you would solve for a lot of issues if you hired and trained your support reps in certain areas of the product-- you are doing a disservice to both your support rep and your customer (not setting up anyone for success) -This role should not be advertised as a way to get somewhere. you need to start hiring people that absolutely love to troubleshoot software--you also need to be way more transparent about the types of troubleshooting that is going to be "encouraged" (namely, writing HTML and CSS. This is a huge skill, learning a language... not something to be excluded from a job description or even the interview) -Speaking of "encouraged" troubleshooting... It needs to be way more obvious what a support rep should be responsible for doing. This expectation should begin when the customer purchases the product---and also, make this way more clear during training -Your wiki is disorganized and impossible to find anything relevant, including your Knowledgebase. Noone can find anything in these places by just searching a subject; Google seems to be the solution. Please organize your resources. -Your "culture" consists of primarily white people

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HubSpot Response
7y
Ouch, tough one to read. We are doing a lot of work with Support leadership right now to achieve a few important things: 1) Great clarity internally and externally on what Support folks can expect daily in the role so there is alignment of expectations from the start 2) Better ways to use automation not just to help our customers succeed with self-service and in-app support but also to empower our Support reps to find answers they need quickly, and 3) Thinking of customer success more broadly, including customer NPS in Support but also including a deeper partnership with the product team to empower joint responsibility across our teams on customer happiness. My hope is that those things will help address some of the concerns you outlined in your review. Regardless of how hard they are to read, I appreciate your candor and feedback in helping us grow better as an organization. Sincerely, Katie
5.0
Oct 15, 2019
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Pros

Flexibility (work from home, remote work, unlimited vacation) intelligent/positive/understanding people, motivated and proactive workforce, leadership is genuine and practices what they preach.

Cons

It's such a flexible work environment that it may be a huge shock to someone coming from the outside or from a very structured and disciplined background. This does not mean there is no structure or discipline, on the contrary, there's structure with purpose.

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HubSpot Response
6y
Thanks for being a learning designer on our team, and for the effusive review! Delighted to have you helping HubSpotters learn and grow, and love that you called out our flexibility and transparency as core reasons you love it. So lucky to have you on our team, thanks for making the time to write this review and all you do for HubSpot! -Katie
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