Overall, HubSpot has failed to treat their current employees with respect. There is no internal growth aside from 'lifers' who have been with HubSpot for over 4 years. The turnover is extremely high with 1/5 of the companies current employees open to new opportunities (majority of these people women and POC).
They promote people based on personal relationships with leaders instead of qualifications. You have to 'drink the koolaid' and continuously post inflated reviews of the company culture on LinkedIn to even start getting recognition.
Compensation is no where near comparable to other companies in the market. They hire new employees doing the same work as current employees at significantly higher rates (~25-50k above in some cases).
They have people taking on responsibilities which go far outside of original role responsibilities and refuse to promote or increase comp. This is something I specifically went through, more information below.
For sourcing specifically, there is a lack of clarity around career growth plans. While management was building this out I was 'kept in the loop' and was given the opportunity to give suggestions and feedback on these plans. However, when the already finalized plans were shared with me, I noticed that it was copied word for word from the recruiting career path. I set up time with my manager to discuss feedback. I had built out a document highlighting similarities and offered suggestions which would be more aligned with the role of a sourcer vs. a recruiter and was told they would take it into consideration. No changes were made. Given I was their most tenured Sourcer on the team and had even been recognized by higher leadership as the reason they decided to build out the sourcing role at HubSpot, I hoped they would be more open to ideas around making this career path reflect the duties and expectations of this role more accurately. This led to many sourcers joining and quickly realizing the role itself was not what they had expected during the interview process.
**Additional Context**
I started at HubSpot as a contract worker on a one month contract which was extended out month by month for about 5 months. Through this time I was the only one out of 7 other sourcers that came and went who, consistently performing above the bar. I frequently expressed interest in being a full time employee and was told every time that it would happen the next month. It never did. I began interviewing and was finally offered a FT position when I brought this offer to leaders.
Following this, they hired 4 new FT sourcers which was great given we were able to build out stronger sourcing capacity. When these sourcers joined, I was responsible for training and onboarding them all, getting them set up for success around internal tooling, best practices and metrics. In addition, I had taken on two New Hire Trainings which I gave weekly, if not more, to incoming employees on the recruiting team as a whole. Then we added another sourcer coming from a non recruitment background and was given the task to mentor them 3x a week on top of general onboarding and training. I had no problem with these tasks as I am always open to help our team grow and continued to maintain above average metrics.
My issue comes in when I attempted to have growth conversations with my manager. I felt as though I was taking on the responsibilities of a sourcing team lead. I was told we could discuss promotions but then was met with my manager continuously canceling our 1:1s and shortening them to 15 minutes. I gave my manager feedback on this and while I know she was busy with many new new hires, I think this is unacceptable behavior from a direct manager.
I finally decided to cut my losses with HubSpot. While it saddened me because I had been there for 2.5 years and would have preferred to stay, I felt undervalued and overworked.
