High expectations with high impact at HubSpot - Anonymous employee HubSpot Employee Review

5.0
15 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

HubSpot hires smart people, sets high expectations, gives them the opportunity to make a big impact, and helps them grow to do even more :) For a company of HubSpot's size is surprising (and lucky) to have access to the company's founders (CEO Brian Halligan and CTO Dharmesh Shah). Invite one of them to a team lunch and if they are available they will go and answer everyone's questions and listen to concerns.

Cons

The Cambridge location can seem too far and the traffic too daunting for people who live out of town but the commuter rail solved that problem for me.

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HubSpot Response
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Delighted to hear that you find access to our founders refreshing (I happen to agree) and that you see and feel the opportunity all employees have for impact. Sincerely appreciate you taking the time to write up your feedback and all you do to help our company and customers grow--I appreciate it. Sorry to hear about the traffic, I would agree that it's getting worse, so I'm glad to hear the commuter rail is helping, and hope you get some good reading/podcast/quiet thinking time during your commute as a result. Thanks again for sharing your feedback, Katie

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