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Awful leaders, but great peers

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Calendly for 2 years
March 3, 2025
Atlanta, Georgia
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
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 in which people can be creative or do good work. I worry they will drive too many good people away before they realize the damage they're doing.

Advice to Management

In order to accomplish the ambitious things we want, we have to build trust, which is being totally wiped out by some of the VPs in Engineering. These guys get paid way too much to not give some care or thought to the way they speak to people.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
1.0

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