An honest review - if I could I’d give it 0 stars - Customer Support Representative HubSpot Employee Review

1.0
28 Aug 2024
Recommend
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Pros

You can work from home. That’s about it.

Cons

All of the bad reviews are accurate. Here’s the truth: Hubspot has changed and not for the better. They laid off most of their support team early last year. And never recovered from that. The remaining support reps took on extra work (more customer tickets, more overtime work, a new emphasis on sales referrals (also known as SQLs), etc) just to deal with the repercussion of losing half their team. They recently announced a “high performance” work culture that they’re expecting support reps to meet. This high performance means taking 14+ customer tickets (23 if you’re a chat support rep), having no less than 85NPS, being available for your customers for 6 hours out of your 8 hour work day, making 1+ SQL (ie. a customer referral to the sales team), a ticket resolution time of 1 day and they don’t want you to ask for help when you need it (which they call an HJAR attachment rate, which really means don’t escalate customer issues to the product EXPERTS). Reps must meet this high performance standard everyday of every month. It doesn’t matter if the customer issues are complex, it doesn’t matter if their recently implemented AI bot provides customers with the incorrect answers and helps with the “simpler” customer issues. The managers in support are truly incompetent, and the senior managers (let’s not call them leaders, since theirs is a big difference between and leader and a manager. Hubspot just has managers) are either unaware or extremely uncaring. Lots of department heads have left at the beginnnig of the year abruptly and this was alarming, but it seems that perhaps they knew this culture shift was going to be a terrible one. There used to be a person called Katie who would vet these employee complaints on Glassdoor, but then when that person left it was someone else. Who actually seems to be MIA from attempting to even pretend to care about employee complaints here. I believe now there is a new person in charge of “people ops” and perhaps they’ll pretend to hear their employees out. If they do, please know that it’s very unlikely anything will be done about the “high performance” work culture hubspot believes in now. I hope who ever reads this and is considering working for hubspot doesn’t get the job, or decides otherwise. No one, no human being, actually can do the impossible and, let’s just call it what it is, toxic work culture hubspot is.

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5.0
30 Apr 2026
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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
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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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