Some great people, but terrible management - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

2.0
Nov 14, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Despite the negative culture, some of the work can be fun and rewarding

Cons

The culture is genuinely bad at HubSpot. They’ve intentionally modeled their company culture after SpaceX and Amazon, which are notoriously controversial places to work, and it shows. There are a few great managers and team members, but overwhelmingly, there’s an extreme “sink or swim” mentality that focuses solely on numbers and increased shareholder revenue instead of meaningful and thoughtful business decisions. Engineers are tracked and reviewed on how many lines of code they write, not by the quality or effectiveness of the code, which I think is indicative of the broader issues.

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Pros

HubSpot is a great product especially with all the addons

Cons

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2.0
May 22, 2026
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Pros

The teams you work with are phenomenal. The knowledge combination between an internal customer facing teams, engineering product development teams, and Sales are unmatched.

Cons

Excessive use of PIPs to oust employees after multiple high revenue launches, with no explanation, actual documentation, or factual data. Reviews have been adjusted to allow for terminations post pre-approved leaves. Salaries are a joke. You are always in a cover yourself mode 24/7. Management reviews are consistently a 2 or 3 out of 5 no matter what. If a team decides you aren’t in the group, management will put you on a “unofficial” PIP without telling you, in order to surprise you at a later date. Even if they are unfounded. Beware of possibility of negative backlash post launches. They will feel the need to assign blame ( such as for timelines or issues related to bugs). Regardless of performance or level of involvement. This is an enormous company with many large paths for career advancement. But micro management is rampant, leaving little room for doing the daily expectations of your actual role. This degrades your opportunities for career advancement.

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