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Benefits still solid, but exhausted by AI chatter

Senior Software Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at HubSpot for 6 years
March 17, 2025
Berlin, Germany
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Colleagues are still pretty nice.

Flexible vacation (rather than unlimited) still seems to be open enough to taking holidays past your contractual days.

Compensation is pretty good for the workload (depending on the team).

For the moment, it's probably still worth joining depending on how you land with your team, but benefits etc. have definitely been slowly slipping over the past 1-2 years.

Cons

Upper management in all sectors is obsessed with AI, and it's starting to creep into performance management where you're expected to use it or talk about it, or else you're not growing.

Generally tiresome US-focus and Kool-Aid vibes, which has always been present.

Engineers are not compensated separately for on-call unless you're in France (due to legal requirement).

Quite restrictive on employees showing any support for Palestine, even in dedicated Slack channel communities, through communication "guardrails".

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
4.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
3.0

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