Maria Angelidou
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Personio. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Maria Angelidou is the Chief Product & Technology Officer at Personio. She previously spent nearly a decade at Meta as VP of Product and General Manager for Facebook Groups and other major products.
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Everything Maria Angelidou said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Europe has 10 to 20 times fewer solid specialized product candidates
“You know, this is actually one of the things that I had to adjust, is that for every let's say, 20 maybe 10, 20, if it's specialized role, candidates that you get in the U.S. That are solid, maybe you get one in Europe. And that actually really slows down your…”
US tech workers exhibit greater ownership than their European counterparts
“I would say that there is a difference in the states People feel like their job is a much bigger part of their identity, and I think in Europe is just less of a phenomenon, and when you feel that your job is important to you personally, I think you put in more…”
Tech entitlement stems from younger workers expecting cushy workplace benefits
“I actually think it's more kind of like the younger generation across Europe and the US. I think especially people who maybe this is their first job, and they had a job that is, like, pretty just cushy from the perspective of, like, you know, all the benefits …”
Highly senior individual contributor PMs are harder to find than managers
“It's much harder to find very senior ICs who have, you know, superpowers on different topics than to find managers, right?”
Facebook's intense feedback culture was a great school for employee calibration
“No, I think it's actually was a great school because what it does is it really pushes you to calibrate and think about, okay, how do you what type of feedback do you lean into and which one you don't?”
Any process not driving speed or product quality destroys company culture
“There's, companies do better when there is, yeah, just minimum process and the process and means to an end, and that end is, you know, it's either for, to help people go faster, or to help them ship better products. Any other process is waste of time, and you …”
Talking is expensive because it consumes valuable team execution time
“I disagree with the philosophy that talk is cheap. Just because talk doesn't cost us any code doesn't mean that we need to do more of it. I think, like you said, you know, talking costs us time, and that is the time that you can be spending, you know, progress…”
Product leaders who prefer philosophizing over fast decisions are a red flag
“Like, any product leaders who love philosophizing, for me, it's a big red flag, right? Like, I love people who are action-oriented, who know how important it is to make decisions fast. The faster you make a decision, the better it is, because you unblock your …”
In tech hiring, men typically negotiate salary offers while women do not
“And I'll tell you that women typically don't negotiate and men do. So that's my experience.”
Management knows if someone is a bad hire within a few weeks
“If it's a really bad hire, you will know, like, within a few weeks.”
US tech relies on initiative while European tech defaults to process
“The other thing is the process versus initiative. Like, I think if you go back to that spectrum that I described, like, you can get stuff done with initiative or process, and you come to the middle, I think my experience is that, again, this is generalization,…”
Leaders must overcompensate when rewarding ambitious, high-risk product swings
“It is much easier to deliver incremental gains, because they're, they can happen in shorter periods of time, and they're much more you know, reliable. Then to go after bigger ideas, which take more time, they're more unpredictable, right? And so as a leader, y…”
Start working on a second product one to two years early
“Ideally, you start thinking about and discovering your second product one to two years before you need to have results. In the market.”
Split R&D capacity into 40% existing, 40% new, and 20% maintenance
“So let's say you invest 30 to 40% in your existing products and 30 to 40% in new products. And then the rest, whatever it is 25, 30% goes to maintain, like, KTLO and internal productivity. As part of that new products bucket, my advice is to keep at least five…”
Candidate case studies should take at most one hour to complete
“It's very concise, and you know, it shouldn't take more than like an hour of someone's time.”
Job candidates should negotiate salary with recruiters, not hiring managers
“Feel uncomfortable negotiating with the company. Negotiate with the talent acquisition person, right? Like whoever the recruiter is, don't negotiate with the manager.”
Hiring only junior PMs fails without senior product leadership
“If you look at every individual PM, they all make sense as individual hires, but if you, Put them all together as a product team. Like, they're all junior, and they're all high horsepower, high potential, but there's no one there to actually train them and, yo…”
Uber-Instacart partnership strengthens their position against DoorDash
“I was reading about the deal that they made with, between Uber and Instacart, and I think that's brilliant, like, both of them, right? Like, it positioned them much better in restaurant delivery against players like, you know DoorDash.”
Personio records and posts materials for every product review on Slack
“Because I think transparency is very, very important, we record every review, and we have a Slack chat, we use Slack, and we post every, about every review, the materials the recording the action items, the ETAs, like, everything is documented,”
Facebook had 3,000 employees and under 100 PMs when Angelidou joined
“Gosh, I want to say maybe 3000 people. Yeah. Something like that. And the product team was very, very small. Maybe, I mean, a hundred, no less, less than a hundred.”
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