In the past year or so the culture at HubSpot has taken a complete nosedive. There has been a total exodus of highly tenured, knowledgeable people across so many departments who had been with the company for many years and held so much knowledge. It seems most everyone you now meet has been here under 2 years, which should tell you something. Leadership keeps joining from major Fortune 500 companies and along with it they have brought the toxic cultures. They continue “benchmarking to the market” which basically means doing away with the benefits and culture that made HubSpot special and different from the typical corporation that treated you as just a number. Work-life balance was terrible to begin with and was made worse after the layoffs. Constant communications via emails and Slack at all hours of the day and everything is somehow an emergency that needed to be completed yesterday. People are already on the edge of burnout, yet somehow we’re now pushing this new “high performance culture” that HR and leadership have barely been able to articule and explain what exactly it means.
