Talented designers deserve better. Also the culture is bad - Design HubSpot Employee Review

2.0
22 Jun 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Big brand recognition on resume

Cons

Everything. They will lie to you during recruitment and orientation is a joke compared to what it’s like to actually work at HubSpot. If you are a talented designer do yourself a favor and go somewhere else. CRAFT is the new buzzword which basically means “make things pretty” because any designer who is not focused purely on visuals is severely neutered. There is no respect for design within teams, the design system team itself has no clue what they are doing, and the whole design org is dysfunctional. The lack of skill among designers is actually astonishing, likely because the skilled ones left. Many of the perks of working at HubSpot were cut. Limited PTO and no WLB.

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Pros

HubSpot is a great product especially with all the addons

Cons

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2.0
22 May 2026
Recommend
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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

Excessive use of PIPs to oust employees after multiple high revenue launches, with no explanation, actual documentation, or factual data. Reviews have been adjusted to allow for terminations post pre-approved leaves. Salaries are a joke. You are always in a cover yourself mode 24/7. Management reviews are consistently a 2 or 3 out of 5 no matter what. If a team decides you aren’t in the group, management will put you on a “unofficial” PIP without telling you, in order to surprise you at a later date. Even if they are unfounded. Beware of possibility of negative backlash post launches. They will feel the need to assign blame ( such as for timelines or issues related to bugs). Regardless of performance or level of involvement. This is an enormous company with many large paths for career advancement. But micro management is rampant, leaving little room for doing the daily expectations of your actual role. This degrades your opportunities for career advancement.

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