HubSpot comes across as a kind of kindergarten cult that plies its young charges with parties, toys, naps, playtime — and not much pay.
During the dot com hysteria of the late 90s, I was casually touring a job fair while wandering the Berkeley campus. Actually came across a company whose core product and mission were a perfect fit.
Started talking to them and the owner said "We have a great work culture. We have cake on your birthday and a DVD library and at six months you get a free DVD player."
I asked about "quality of life" and salaries and she said "Well, we're a startup. We work long hours and expect employees to do so as well, 60 and 70 hour weeks, and we have really tight budgets" (which I took to mean non-competitive wages but promise of shares and it was clear this was not a company going public any time soon).
Calculating quickly... I said "So in return for... an extra 80+ hours a month, 500 hours over six months, you're going to give me a $100 DVD player and that will make it all good? That's like paying me twenty cents an hour for my overtime" and walked away.
I know people with their backs to the wall who can't walk away. They're a few dollars and one short work week from disaster. But for people who are not in that situation, which would be most of these Hubspot employees I would guess, they will learn the most important lesson in life. Always be willing to walk away from a job.