In my experience, HubSpot has a toxic culture - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

2.0
15 Dec 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- WFH setup - Decent ish work life balance until after "Week of Rest"

Cons

- I have experienced insincere managers who will be nice to you only to get you to work harder than your pay grade. And without intentions of promoting you. - I have experienced low internal mobility and little transparency on the promotion process (no discussions about what did/didn't make me eligible for promotion during a cycle) - In my experience, I've noticed a toxic top-down culture with censorship or denying/minimizing/blaming when employees don't conform and drink the orange Kool-Aid. - In my experience, I've noticed many internal inefficiencies due to the company mainly reacting to market conditions and trying to grow too aggressively. - In my experience, the recent push to "high-performance culture" signals more toxicity and cutthroat performance metrics than before.

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HubSpot Response
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Sorry to hear and read this--on high performance, the goal is to stay true to our goal of remarkable, not at all to become cut-throat, but I'm sorry to hear that's the impression of where we are headed. -Katie

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