Corporate shift causing burnout - Senior Software Engineer HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
May 22, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wonderful people to work with. Excellent developer tooling. Compensation has improved significantly.

Cons

There's been quite a few high impact people fired in recent months because they were doing "fine" for one quarter instead of exceeding expectations. They get a PIP, no clear guidance for improving, ignored by managers and then fired after a month. These are people who have been around for years, previously did well enough to get promoted, and are now suddenly not good enough. They built HubSpot and their reward is being cut off when they stop burning their candle on both ends. Performance measurement has gone from being story based to metrics based and it's hurting morale.

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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

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