Pros: - Resume stamp of approval. - Everyone knows HubSpot in Boston. - Lots of really smart, driven, and interesting people. - You'll learn a ton about startups and build connections around Boston. - Inbound marketing really is the future. - #GSD culture.

Cons: - Forced culture as they started to scale. - Absolutely no competence in middle management. - Lots of politics. - Favoritism. - Jerk attitude at times that makes you feel like what you're doing isn't worth anything. - Too many software rewrites. - Feature-overloaded product.

Pros: - The people are smart and care a lot about the product. - The in-house tooling and infrastructure for engineering teams is incredible. It makes the day-to-day development process truly enjoyable. - You're not micromanaged; people trust you to get your work done. - Leadership honestly wants you to take advantage of the unlimited vacation. - Leaders—from lower-level managers to the executives—are passionate and thoughtful. They work hard to make employees feel supported, and diversity, inclusion, and belonging efforts are a top priority for seemingly all people managers. - Very competitive salary for the Boston area. - (For whenever it opens back up) The office is beautiful.

Cons: The high amount of autonomy could leave some feeling like the work cadence is a bit unstructured. Promotion criteria is a bit vague, depending on your position. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but again, it could leave some feeling lacking in structure.

Pros: Senior leadership makes positive changes and cares about the company culture. There are some rockstar tech leads and engineering managers here. Lots of opportunity to work with senior engineers. High mobility and flexibility. Engineers are encouraged to work on new projects/teams and to continue learning. Not very stressful, at least in my experience as a Software Engineer. I pretty much work 9-5 and don't feel pressured to work more than that. The company is experiencing a ton of growth and seems to be scaling well.

Cons: A handful of engineers have poor communication skills. There could be more training for engineers to not come across so arrogant, condescending, or harsh in their speech. It seems some senior engineers get promoted to tech lead too quickly. I have noticed some tech leads are better at being engineers than they are at empathizing with people. Not all tech leads will check in with you on a regular basis. This is hard when working in a remote world. Anyone in a leadership position should be trained to check in on new hires more often. Better to be over-communicative. Base compensation seems fair, but I think HubSpot could bump up the stock reward and signing bonus values to attract more talent.