HubSpot

Great perks.

Work from home benefits.

Excellent strategies from the CEO and transparency in company meetings.

Lots of opportunities.

Upper management policies to award people with HEART.

Local-level politics and favouritism.

Looks flat from the outside, but internally, there's a monopoly of team leads.

Do team leads just need to be great software engineers? What about showing HEART? What about showing inclusion for each software engineer?

For example, software engineers use tools like 15-five to track their progress, impact on the team, etc. Similarly, why not track team leads' progress with each teammate on how they have helped them? What have they done to help them grow? Do all the team members under him/her feel included? Are they transparent to them? Do team leads take ownership as a team?