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Not a good place to start a tech job

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at HubSpot for 1 year
March 26, 2020
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Maybe free gourmet coffee and smoothies.

Cons

The company was flooded with junior engineers who were just prompted to Tech Lead positions. They knew pretty much nothing about software design and constantly exercised poor technical judgment. Many times, they don't know how to solve problems and focus on unimportant and trivial stuff. I would imagine HubSpot is probably their first job out of college, and ironically, they hold some bad practices (software design anti-patterns) as golden rules for them.

Advice to Management

The company doesn't need so many "tech leads". Especially the leads like to give others funny and poor "advice" just because they feel they are in the so-called lead positions. We need real, experienced people who have more industry experience and can solve problems.

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