Culture of fear - Software Developer HubSpot Employee Review

1.0
18 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interesting technologies to work with, lots of customers and big engineering challenges to tackle.

Cons

Culture of fear favoritism. Unless you're not among the blessed few, you will be forced out. Voicing any opinion contradictory to the current way of thinking will land you on the outside looking in. Frequent compulsory "hackathons" that are nothing more than an excuse to force engineers to work until 2am.

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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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