Pros: Good internal tools. No Ops.

Cons: Watch the movie “The Internship,” and you’ll get a sense of what HubSpot is marketing itself as. It’s a disgusting, systematic tactic to exploit the blooming tech industry with an over-saturation of inexperienced, young, talented people trying to get their foot in the tech scene. HubSpot shamelessly markets itself as a shiny, big tech firm when all of its benefits are only for a PR stunt. You need to be the top 5%-10% to be able to use the “unlimited holidays”; it’s not for everyone. The gym membership reimbursement is a prepaid MasterCard that expires after 3 months, and you cannot get cash out of that card. HubSpot is actually a sweatshop in disguise. HubSpot’s JIRA tickets are measured in minutes, and you see tickets estimated for only 15 minutes! You are expected to deliver a task, including finding the issue, making a code change, finishing your code review, and deploying to QA and testing it, then deploying it to production. You then spend a few minutes logging on the ticket, saying that you spent 25 minutes doing the task because you didn’t want to look bad claiming the entire task takes you twice as long. The entire system is designed to be a ruthless grind to exploit every penny out of their engineers. Any other company would have a much better work-life balance.

Pros: Office space is very nice.

Cons: Management only cares about profits. Poor work-life balance. They hire people at a very fast pace, but are not well organized in terms of training the new hires.

Pros: - The tech stack is interesting, and with the smaller teams, one can learn interesting things.

Cons: I’ve worked at the company as both an intern for multiple periods (2018, 2019) and as a full-timer from 2020-2023. I can attest to the very negative turn in culture at this company. I raised concerns about my manager, which were ignored by upper leadership. This resulted in multiple retaliations, an internal whistleblower investigation, and ultimately, shortly after the investigation’s conclusion, I was let go. (Although they made it a point to let me know they do not retaliate against employees who file whistleblower complaints.) If you are neurodivergent, not able-bodied, a person of color, a woman, etc., my strong recommendation would be to avoid this company like the plague. If you do not conform, you will be sidelined and most likely let go eventually. I know of a few former employees who have had really bad interactions with this company behind closed doors. Please be careful and consider other options.