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
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.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Akamai all have significant presences within Kendall Square (a block or so) from Hubspot's office in Cambridge, MA There is more startup/VC activity in that 1 square mile than anywhere in the world. There is a reason why they are all located within a block of each other / MIT.
My point (see first sentence) is that nobody comparable is actually headquartered here. All these companies you named except Akamai have their center of gravity elsewhere. Akamai is not rated as high as Hubspot on Glassdoor.
Ya it's pretty good here just saying.
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.
What's the Ops stack like?
great question, i was wondering that as well, but more interested in the dev stack... languages, framework used and such
It's Boston......
I worked the west coast tech scene a couple of times, not a fan. Quality of life for a dev in Boston is objectively higher. You do you though :)
Why is qol in Boston higher?
In Boston, you're options are kinda limited in terms of local tech companies. Sure google, etc all have offices in Boston but they are satellite offices. There just aren't many places to work with a decent culture. It's why I moved out three years ago.
"hubspot as a company isn't that *big* or successful... single digit billion". I completely disagree with that assumption. hubspot is just 11 yrs old, it's a public company with a lot of cash and really good financials. at over 1,600 employees worldwide and a 2B market cap it's exactly the opposite of what you're saying. (in other words, I think it's an unfair to define successful as just companies with tens of thousands of employees and 10B+ mkt cap, don't you think?)
If you compare yourself to the Googles of the world well always be small but id say Pandora is big.... Billions of anything is pretty big.
You know another company thats almost mirror to HubSpot in terms of engineering and culture is Chewy. They just hit the Boston market and I've heard they are converting this office into an HQ rather than their present fort Lauderdale office.
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).
Disagree. My friends work on various amazon web services that get similar if not more traffic than the ones you mention above
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.
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