Why does hubspot have such a mindshare on the Boston tech scene

Tableau / Eng
Hhhhh

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Hhhhh
Jul 23, 2017 47 Comments

All my software engineer friends in Boston have quit and work at hubspot. But hubspot as a company isn't *that* big or successful (yes its a unicorn, but still single digit billion in market cap).

Is hubspot really good at marketing itself? Or there just aren't that many startups in Boston?

Asking out of curiosity, I'm not looking to work there or anything

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  • Hubspot
    ydhauch

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    ydhauch
    How many hip tech companies do you know are actually headquartered in the Boston area? That's one major reason. Other big tech companies may have some presence here, but their center of gravity is elsewhere in the country.

    Hubspot tries to maintain a positive work culture. See culturecode.com. Also note the high company rating on Glassdoor. This is one of the best places I've worked at in a long time.

    As a practical matter Hubspot combines a start-up-like culture with the huge amount of money of a well funded public company, all headquartered in Cambridge.
    Jul 23, 2017 6
  • Hubspot
    pxGF56

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    pxGF56
    I think it's also the engineering culture is top notch. Deploying to prod is just clicking a button and you get to do it multiple times a day. Don't have to wrangle build tools to get things working. And ops teams that keep all the lights on and continuously improving reliability.
    Jul 23, 2017 3
    • HealthNow / Eng
      binarycafe

      HealthNow Eng

      PRE
      healthnow
      binarycafe
      great question, i was wondering that as well, but more interested in the dev stack... languages, framework used and such
      Jul 24, 2017
    • Hubspot
      pxGF56

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      pxGF56
      We have a few ops teams

      Data ops runs Kafka, hbase, mysql, and elasticsearch

      Tech ops runs the base servers in AWS and tools around provisioning we use puppet for that

      We have mesos for our own apps using our open source scheduler singularity

      Building out kubernetees cluster for running projects we don't own (like vitess)

      Our backend is all Java 8

      Frontend is mostly React and ES6 with some legacy backbone and coffeescript projects
      Jul 24, 2017
  • Hubspot / Eng
    Nnnnnn

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    Nnnnnn
    There are very few "large companies" that you can come into as a dev and quite literally own a single app that gets used by tens or hundreds of thousands of people. At other large companies I've worked at, I worked on huge teams and barely had impact on the product. At HubSpot you can come into work and say "hey I feel like making this table column sortable today", and then do it, and everybody will applaud you.

    In order words, you own real apps of business importance, and have near complete autonomy for what you do with that app (with the support of some truly badass ops folk).
    Jul 29, 2017 2
    • Tableau / Eng
      Hhhhh

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      Hhhhh
      OP
      Disagree. My friends work on various amazon web services that get similar if not more traffic than the ones you mention above
      Jul 29, 2017
    • Hubspot
      ydhauch

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      ydhauch
      He's not talking about traffic, but autonomy. Small teams have near complete control over their codebase. Every developer can push his own code into production, and we might do that several times a day. There is no release management org or process gating us. No QA, no release management, no Scrum, no deadlines, nothing hindering us from delivering our code when we're ready, as soon as we're ready, and only when we're ready.

      It's refreshing to be able to do this at a large company on production system with nontrivial traffic. Sure, there are other high traffic sites out there. But the ability to work on a production system at a large company with such autonomy is remarkable.
      Jul 30, 2017
  • Facebook / Eng
    instandidl

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    instandidl
    It's Boston......
    Jul 23, 2017 4
  • Hubspot
    shjekdc

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    shjekdc
    I've only worked at HubSpot but it's been a great experience and the culture is unmatched. DM me if you're considering it and I'd be happy to chat and refer.
    Aug 4, 2017 2