Burke: HubSpot's wiki once declared it would never hire a CPO
Katie Burke · How to Build Happier Employees - Founder & CTO and Chief People Officer at HubSpot · Oct 5, 2018 · at 19:33
Katie Burke, Chief People Officer at HubSpot, reflects on the company's early cultural resistance to traditional corporate HR roles.
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“We actually have a storied wiki post at HubSpot that actually made a declaration that we would never, ever, ever in the history of the company have a chief people officer.”
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