The investment in culture is real - Vice President HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
20 Jul 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

When I joined HubSpot, I wondered if the marketing around their culture was real... a healthy skepticism I maintained for probably my first whole year. Now that I've been there for a while, I can attest that it is indeed real and everyone works hard to hold the bar high. I really like how we keep the focus on customer impact & spend less time trying to emulate competition or react to short term market trends. The focus on the customer also makes it easy to make the hard internal decisions - we do whats best for customer when at all possible. As for how they take care of employees, I specifically like how they do consistent employee net promoter scores and then review as a management team (director and above) to take action on any pain we find.

Cons

There are sometimes competing priorities that make it hard to know what's ideal to focus on. If we're launching a new Hub, is it important to grow that Hub or more important to make the rest of the platform (5 hubs) more valuable? Some leaders would say the latter, but rate you on the former. Probably just life in the big city, but a single unified go to market engine can create fiction with an org that serves 4+ personas with 5+ hubs in 7 major markets spread across Small / Mid / Corp segments. Whew!

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HubSpot Response
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I am so sorry, I'm not sure how I missed this this summer, so I apologize. Thank you for being a VP with us and for this thoughtful review. In particular, I like your note on the competing priorities (I feel it too!) and your push on us staying involved and invested--you have my word that isn't changing! Thank you for making the time to write this and for being a valued senior leader at HubSpot! Sincerely, Katie

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