HubSpot

I'm thankful for HubSpot, which allowed me to get back on top of my life and health (unlike a former company that doesn't care about employees and personal growth/recovery).

Remote work, flexibility, and a positive and respectful culture greatly helped.

HubSpot has a lot to offer and regularly invests in staying ahead of the curve. The technical vision and implementation let engineers get work done and learn in the process. Autonomy is a plus. Everyone I met was competent and friendly. Many are great at thinking out of the box and delivering.

I feel like I'm pretty well paid, and I'm not looking for other jobs that could be better paid (but at what price?). I value the balance I found here.

There is a lot to do and bets to make to prioritize. Keeping it all together can be challenging, but that's what fast growth brings.

The high-performance culture, meant to create a winning team, is okay to have. I prefer it to complacency, which eventually makes you wonder why you work passionately around a few people who drag their feet. Unfortunately, some leadership layers failed to demonstrate they'd handle that kind of culture properly. It's a known problem. Let's see how that improves.

I know at least one key area of product development that's chronically understaffed. Tech debt is growing, acknowledged but not taken seriously. Institutional knowledge is fading, and maintaining it takes time that no one has.

Career paths are arbitrarily written in stone, whether or not they match the needs of a group or the company.

Keep growing the company and your management skills.

Solve for the teams.

Solve for the employees!