Awful leaders but great peers - Software Engineer Calendly Employee Review

2.0
Mar 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The ICs and line-managers here are wonderful people. Kind, student/teacher types, humble, pragmatic folks. The pay is good enough. The product is interesting and enjoyable to work on. We have a great historic remote culture. Brand recognition feels nice. Some of our leaders are very smart, many many individuals are too, but the new direction in senior leaders is concerning...

Cons

There are a few leaders that have joined in the last year that have worked hard to make the culture really bad. They try to accomplish goals by use of intimidation, bullying, blaming, pinging all hours of the day, and with hardly a shred of humility, decency, and treating people with respect. These are not work conditions that people can be creative or do good work in. I worry they will drive too many good people away before they realize the damage they're doing.

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- From my experience, great team, attentive leadership, and focus on making things better for everyone. - I've genuinely enjoyed who I work with on a day to day basis - even with a fully remote culture. - Competitive pay, good benefits. - Legitimately a fun job.

Cons

- Every job has its ups and downs. But that being said I can genuinely say I've enjoyed my time here.

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Calendly Response
2w
This genuinely made our day to read, thank you for sharing it! Hearing that the team, the leadership, and the day-to-day work have all been a positive experience means a lot, especially coming from someone living it in a fully remote environment. Strong connections across a distributed team don't happen by accident, and it's great to know that's coming through. Your advice to leadership, staying focused and giving engineers room to build is something we want to make sure stays front and center. That's exactly the kind of environment we're working to protect and build on. We'd love to keep that momentum going, and your People Business Partner is always a great sounding board if you ever want to share more. — The Calendly People Team
4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The team and the people that are there are some of the best.

Cons

Constant changing of priorities. Leadership never seems to know what they want.

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Calendly Response
1w
We appreciate you sharing your feedback about your time at Calendly. Hearing that the people around you were a genuine highlight means a lot, that's not accidental, and it's something we want to keep being true as we grow. The flip side, feeling like priorities were shifting faster than clarity could follow, is feedback we don't want to brush past. We're passing it to the leaders who need to hear it. Doing the best work requires knowing where you're headed, and that's a standard worth holding ourselves to. — The Calendly People Team
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