HubSpot Senior Software Developer II reviews

1.9

5% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)
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Yamini Rangan

1% approve of CEO

5% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer II employees have rated HubSpot with 1.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer II professionals have a poor working experience there. HubSpot is rated 48% below average by Senior Software Developer II professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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22 reviews
4.0
Jul 11, 2022

Great culture

Recommend
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Pros

Great company culture, everyone seems to genuinely care about the other. There is little pressure, yet people are very responsible and accountable. Small teams with strong focus on a single technology stack (no interdisciplinary teams), making it easy to focus on your area of expertise and excel. There is a unified technology stack throughout the company, which could be a good or bad thing, but it makes things much more straightforward and much easier to get help internally. The diversity culture is strong and everyone feels welcome.

Cons

The diversity culture can make one feel pressure, especially if you don't believe in personal pronouns or simply don't want to have stuff like that in your name. Every meeting or presentation starts with people introducing themselves and their pronouns. This can make it very uncomfortable for people that don't want to do it. There is a strong push to use VS Code as a frontend engineer. All the company's tools are integrated with VS Code and they provide no license to Webstorm, etc. There is a generous education budget, but it does not cover conferences or books (unless the books are part of your studies). There is a free books program though, which covers one e-book (less than $35) per month. The company does not sponsor conference attendance or language courses, which is sad. There are lots of internal tech and tools, which you will spend the better half of a year learning. Given these tools are internal to the company, this knowledge and any experience you gain with these tools will not follow you out of the company. There is an internal version of everything, from React, to Webpack, Jenkins, Babel, Moment, etc. New language features (like async/await) are not available because the internal version of babel is outdated. There are lots of frustrating problems like these.

5.0
Apr 25, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

By almost any measure, HubSpot is an excellent place to work. - Incredibly smart and kind coworkers - Internal culture aligns with the culture code (HubSpot walks the walk) - Lots of cool things to work on - Awesome developer tooling, some really nice stuff that I wish other jobs had - Everything on the front-end is moving to Typescript - Interesting technical presentations and discussions happening each week - Free book every month (separate from your stipend

Cons

This is all front-end specific since that's where I work. HubSpot made some questionable decisions on how their javascript dependencies are bundled/published internally. This means normal JS tooling does not work. If you develop for the front-end, you are forced to use VSCode and a HubSpot-specific plugin to get autocompletion, intellisense, debugging etc. - no live/hot reloading of any kind - no async/await - no option chaining `thing?.nested?.someKey` - can't use your preferred editor

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HubSpot Response
4y
Thanks for being a Senior SWE with us and for the detailed write-up--I think the cons are actually helpful in their specificity for folks considering a technical role, so thanks for sharing that. On remote, I think that's fair feedback--our culture of autonomy makes it hard for our team to push on things like this, but I am hopeful with the combination of remote meetups and a bunch of the hybrid toolkits our team has put together that this gets meaningfully better with some help. Appreciate your feedback here! -Katie
5.0
Mar 1, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Friendly environment without pressure - A lot of autonomy - Good salary - Interesting and challenging tasks - You can choose how you want to work (office, remote or flexible)

Cons

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't seen any cons yet

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HubSpot Response
4y
Thanks for being a Senior SWE 2 with us and for helping us build out our tech team in the German market. Appreciate that you call out autonomy, salary, and work preference choice as reasons you love HubSpot--the feeling is mutual! -Katie
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