Awesome company if you are on the right team/department - Principal Sales Engineer HubSpot Employee Review

4.0
15 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

HubSpot is one of the best companies I have worked for and it is amazing how many smart and inspiring people work here. Transparency is everything and you can really grow professionally if you want.

Cons

The biggest problem of this company is the first line management team, who is full of inexperienced people, who have been promoted because of their great performance as an individual contributor, but not necessarily for the ability and potential in managing people. Unfortunately these managers are not enabling the success of their team members, but they are mostly interested in showing upper management that they are as cool as managers as they were as individual contributors.

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HubSpot Response
9y
Thanks for your review. I agree on people being smart and inspiring, and also agree we haven't perfectly nailed front line management and first time management just yet. We are working on plays to ensure we propel management to further success long-term, so if you have any interest in sending me your thoughts on specific actionable solutions on this, would love to hear them. Thank you for your input, your review, and your pushes--as we scale, we'll need to continue iterating and getting better, and this type of feedback is incredibly helpful to help us get there. Sincerely, Katie

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