HubSpot

Wonderful people to work with. Excellent developer tooling. Compensation has improved significantly.

There have been quite a few high-impact people fired in recent months because they were doing "fine" for one quarter instead of exceeding expectations.

They get a PIP, no clear guidance for improving, are ignored by managers, and then fired after a month. These are people who have been around for years, previously did well enough to get promoted, and are now suddenly not good enough.

They built HubSpot, and their reward is being cut off when they stop burning their candle at both ends. Performance measurement has gone from being story-based to metrics-based, and it's hurting morale.

HubSpot built its success by giving employees freedom to do their work the way that worked best. Now, managers are breathing down everyone's necks. This requires systemic changes to fix.