HubSpot

The company culture is good, as far as an external person is concerned. Some of the people are pretty talented.

• Absolutely pathetic team leads.
• Absolute micromanagement.
• Since they try to show off that they have the best culture, the only way they can do the opposite is by being passive-aggressive. Leads retract on their own statements and have partial and targeted behavior. They give a code review at midnight and expect it to be addressed the next day before the 8 am meeting. Since they are easily replaceable, they have an incentive in setting you up for failure.
• Doing the same work every day (this is true for most teams). You cannot change teams until a year if you do not like the work. And even after a year, you are at the mercy of the reviews of the same people you are trying to get away from to change teams.
• If you are smarter than your superiors, you are absolutely screwed (when I say seniors, they can be the same age as you or even younger, since they can make anyone a TL).
• WFH is a joke. I am scrutinized even if I take a lunch break longer than half an hour, or fail to reply to Slack within 5 minutes. I really wish we were in the office because I can at least go to the bathroom and may not be perceived as underperforming or just not attentive to work.
• Adhering to best software practices is a forgotten thing.

I have survived for some time now but under absolute torture. There is no use reaching out to higher-level management because the person higher up the food chain always wins. You cannot show the truth if everyone hates it. I do not know when they will fire me, but I expect it sooner rather than later because this has happened to numerous other people in the same way.

Get rid of bureaucracy.

Team leads in engineering case.

Work before philanthropy!