HubSpot reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(4,151 total reviews)
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Yamini Rangan

65% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

HubSpot has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,151 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HubSpot employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Sep 23, 2015

I felt duped.

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Pros

- Free food - Free beer - Great pay (if you are a developer) - Fun parties - Some cool people - Amazing benefits - Free gym - Great on the resume - Unlimited vacation policy - Stock options

Cons

- Frat house college type culture. Can be fun sometimes but is mostly horribly juvenile and unprofessional. Can be very hard to work as a serious professional in this environment. - Extreme lack of diversity on all counts. If you are white, extroverted, and come from a wealthy family, you will fit right in. If you are none of those things - good luck to you and your sanity. - Still tries to act like a start up when there are now well over 1000 people. The lack of structure worked once, but now it feels very messy and too loose. A lot needs to be tightened up (in a way that doesn't lose the casual atmosphere altogether). - Unqualified and inept management. It appears that once you have been at HubSpot for x many years you get promoted to management, no matter if you were a developer or a support 'engineer', which is an absolute nightmare for real professionals to work under. - Unmet expectations. They do a great job marketing themselves to potential hires, saying how they are truly changing the world, how there is infinite opportunity in the company, how they are the best of the best, that it is harder to get into HubSpot than Yale, that culture and transparency is the #1 priority. Never in my life have I felt so duped. When you are done drinking the Kool-Aide and realize you have been had on all counts, you will feel extremely disheartened and disappointed. - Unmet role expectations. I was sold on a position that was 100% different than what was offered. When it was time to get to work, my daily tasks were far below my skill set and offered no challenge. - Too many young people and too much drinking. There are taps in the kitchen, and all big parties are heavily alcohol involved. Again, if you are a frat house type extroverted person, you will love it. if not (especially introverted developers) you will feel left out. - Hidden HR Department. HR is deftly called "People Ops", and people are left in the dark about the support they can offer to employees. When I needed to reach out to HR I had to ask several people for who to contact because I had no idea how to find them. This is deeply troubling as many teams are rich with conflict and politics, and HR could help resolve this issues before they compound into bigger problems.

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This review saddens me deeply, and most of all, I'm disappointed by the fact that you felt HR hard to find because our people ops team does a great job helping people sort out situations like this--our team will work on some options to ensure that it's abundantly clear that's an option all employees are not only able but encouraged to take, so that's on me to make more front and center and communicate more effectively. I would welcome a discussion any time if you want to chat about your experience (both the candidate and employee side), so let me know--happy to sit down or to take additional feedback via TinyPulse on how we can do better.
3.0
Apr 23, 2025

How the mighty fall

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Pros

- Leading Product & AI Innovation – HubSpot remains a frontrunner in product development and AI advancements. - Strong Product Pipeline – Continuous rollout of new features and improvements.

Cons

- Misaligned Leadership Expectations – Goals seem designed for upward reporting rather than real-world execution or customer impact. - Poor Cross-Team Coordination – Initiatives are launched without considering downstream effects, leading to inefficiencies and extra work. - Emphasis on Gabby – Leadership’s focus neglects other customer segments, leaving many feeling overlooked. - Disjointed Product Rollouts – Features are pushed too quickly without proper training or communication, creating confusion. - Declining Benefits & Culture – The once-great perks and culture are eroding. - Lack of Leadership Engagement – Decisions feel disconnected from employee and customer realities. - Loss of Company Identity – HubSpot no longer stands out; it’s becoming just another average tech company.

1.0
Nov 6, 2024

Be warned

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Pros

-Stock Options -Remote Work -Benefits

Cons

If you want to come into a sales position with a proven track record of success only to feel inadequate in your new role, come to HubSpot. I was duped into believing that success was correlated to hard work and persistence, but that is not the case. Your success here will come down to a few factors: capacity and current clients assigned to you when you start, figuring out how to cheat the system and steal leads, somehow getting into the "in crowd" (impossible if you're remote), and basically just being an all around fake human being 10 hours a day. Training in the beginning was good, but then you're left wondering each day what you really accomplished. Should I be sourcing accounts from the vast wasteland of open accounts? Should I be cold calling CEO's at a .1% success rate? Should I be bothering my current clients at the end of each month to upgrade like a used car salesman? I still couldn't tell you. This org is churning through reps at an unprecedented rate and trying to hit the 50% growth rate mentioned in Dan Lyons' book about his experience here. You are, simply put, a cog in the machine. This was just a confusing experience. Luckily I could put my pride aside regarding my number and realize that my success was pretty much out of my control. Top reps are not doing anything differently than average reps. They just know how to work the system. If you want a place that provides an even playing field where you can make money if you put your head down and work hard (as most sales people do), go somewhere else. Hope this helps somebody.

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