I can say that the people we hired from HubSpot were 100% frat-house-boys so I 100% believe it.
But back to the company I worked, there were very stupid shit going on:
Around #MeToo, there was a group meeting with all men in the company because of fears of sexual harassment issues. Nobody close to me had any idea about the root cause, and there were some very strangely sexist comments in the meeting. Some people (including one later fired for non-sexual harassment) made it a personal soapbox and went into rants. The CEO completely mishandled it.
Also there was once an anonymous blog about the practices of the company that was totally blown out of proportion by management, and all employees had to attend a meeting to talk about it. Once again the CEO mishandled it, first by paying any attention and second for being incredibly awkward and super-defensive.
This was the main reason the CEO was ousted.
After I left the company there was a string of CEOs that acqui-hired all the competitors and basically drained the company's coffers. And of course the over-hiring, getting to 900 people on a pyramid scheme.
I forgot to tell the main product the company made: SEO blogspam. Yep.
Last year it collapsed because of our mutual friend, ChatGPT.
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There is a similar book about Hubspot, a "sister company" of the place I used to work. It was published around the time I was there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disrupted:_My_Misadventure_in_...
I can say that the people we hired from HubSpot were 100% frat-house-boys so I 100% believe it.
But back to the company I worked, there were very stupid shit going on:
Around #MeToo, there was a group meeting with all men in the company because of fears of sexual harassment issues. Nobody close to me had any idea about the root cause, and there were some very strangely sexist comments in the meeting. Some people (including one later fired for non-sexual harassment) made it a personal soapbox and went into rants. The CEO completely mishandled it.
Also there was once an anonymous blog about the practices of the company that was totally blown out of proportion by management, and all employees had to attend a meeting to talk about it. Once again the CEO mishandled it, first by paying any attention and second for being incredibly awkward and super-defensive.
This was the main reason the CEO was ousted.
After I left the company there was a string of CEOs that acqui-hired all the competitors and basically drained the company's coffers. And of course the over-hiring, getting to 900 people on a pyramid scheme.
I forgot to tell the main product the company made: SEO blogspam. Yep.
Last year it collapsed because of our mutual friend, ChatGPT.