HubSpot

Good internal tools. No Ops.

Watch the movie “The Internship,” and you’ll get a sense of what HubSpot is marketing itself as. It’s a disgusting, systematic tactic to exploit the blooming tech industry with an over-saturation of inexperienced, young, talented people trying to get their foot in the tech scene.

HubSpot shamelessly markets itself as a shiny, big tech firm when all of its benefits are only for a PR stunt. You need to be the top 5%-10% to be able to use the “unlimited holidays”; it’s not for everyone. The gym membership reimbursement is a prepaid MasterCard that expires after 3 months, and you cannot get cash out of that card.

HubSpot is actually a sweatshop in disguise. HubSpot’s JIRA tickets are measured in minutes, and you see tickets estimated for only 15 minutes! You are expected to deliver a task, including finding the issue, making a code change, finishing your code review, and deploying to QA and testing it, then deploying it to production. You then spend a few minutes logging on the ticket, saying that you spent 25 minutes doing the task because you didn’t want to look bad claiming the entire task takes you twice as long.

The entire system is designed to be a ruthless grind to exploit every penny out of their engineers. Any other company would have a much better work-life balance.

Don’t market yourself as something you’re not.