The high performance culture is crushing. My team has implemented a learning and development program that seems good-natured in theory, but feels more like an underhanded way to power HubSpot's performance culture. You're expected to know everything about your industry and stay up to date and use that in your role, even though you're nowhere near Director level or in a decision-making position. It's too much. Being as low as I am in the "corporate ladder," I genuinely miss being told what to do. I miss having a boss, not a "people manager." I miss being at a job that knows it's just a job.
HubSpot seems to generally expect people to love, live, and breathe their job here every hour of the day. For most of us, that's too intense. I'm not passionate about what I do, and I shouldn't be expected to be passionate because that's outside of the bounds of an employer's desires. I only want to be a good worker that gets stuff done (IYKYK).
Instead, the expectation is sky-high with no matching salary. I'm being asked to learn new skills — but to what end? I'm not applying those skills immediately. Now, if I need to develop a skill because I'm being given a new responsibility and a pay increase, that's something else. But there are no new responsibilities to be seen. It’s just learning for the sake of learning, which is great if you’re in school. Obviously, this isn’t.
I should feel like I have the tools and skills to succeed in the role I’m in right now. Instead, with its suffocating performance culture and hectic growth-driven mindset, HubSpot doesn’t let its employees be. You constantly have to grow, have to grow, have to grow, and it’s utterly exhausting.
