Decent colleagues, leadership treat employees like children
Pros
Most of the people you work with will be decent quality and people are generally friendly. If you can work the politics a bit you can get some interesting projects with real business impact. Lots of growth potential, if you can get into the right area of the business. I’ve spent a lot of time here and until recently I’ve had no real reason to consider leaving.
Cons
Leadership have been on a multi year campaign to remove benefits that made HubSpot a great place to work, and position those removals as exciting opportunities for employees rather than straight forward cost cutting. A recent example is killing off the unlimited time off policy for the given reason that people weren’t taking any time off, but not mandating a minimum time off policy, and leaving it up to managers how long their reports should be allowed take off within certain unbinding “targets”. This new policy was heralded by our new head of HR as “embracing clarity”. The CEO appears absent (she has since she started, but even more so these days) and communications from her team are chaotic.
