Scaling up is hard to do - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

3.0
21 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits People Dog-friendly office Lots of snacks and food

Cons

Managers are inexperienced Internal mobility is difficult Ego driven culture Inconsistency among teams and how they're managed

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HubSpot Response
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Definitely agree we have a lot of new managers, but we are doing a lot even in the next few months to empower them and improve. The most unnverving part of your review to me is the "ego driven culture" part of it--that's precisely the opposite of what we are trying to build here, so I'm bummed that's how you experience it. Would welcome additional feedback in person on how we move the needle there if you're open to sharing it, thanks for helping us improve by sharing your thoughts. -Katie

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