Annie Pearl
7 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2023 by Annie Pearl · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Feb 26, 2023 positive
Pearl: Calendly CPO skips early PM reviews to encourage open debate
“Actually, part of the reason I don't go to the meeting is that I really want everyone to be able to be open and transparent and provide feedback and not feel like there's any sort of Judgment from me or any sort of needing to act a certain way because I'm in t…”
Feb 26, 2023 positive
Pearl: The best PM candidates are brutally honest about product failures
“People being brutally honest around how bad it was and why it failed. You know, the rest of the interview, they're trying to tell you all the wonderful things they did and all the accomplishments they had, and so I think the rawer the answer in terms of how ba…”
Feb 26, 2023 positive
Calendly grew from 150 to 600 employees in two years
“When I joined about two years ago, I think the company was about a 150 people, and I think we're about 600 now, and then the product team, we're about, there were about 15 product managers and designers when I joined again about two years ago, and I think we'r…”
Feb 26, 2023 positive
Calendly commits to engineering dates only after finishing discovery and solutioning
“Something we've done over the last year is, is really kind of moved to a model of, Talking about dates and promising and committing to dates that are within our control. And so if you think about kind of the product development lifecycle, you know, we can comm…”
Feb 26, 2023
Pearl: Offer your availability first to reduce scheduling friction
“I think at a high level, I think I recommend first really just kind of opening the door for the person you're trying to schedule time with to share their availability first, right? So instead of just sending the link, I usually start the email with something l…”
Feb 26, 2023 positive
Pearl: Calendly conducts quarterly competitive wargaming across product teams
“Another fun one we do is something we call competitive wargaming. So, you know, on a some sort of time interval, at times it's been quarterly, we'll have assigned people into groups for the quarter to own a competitor, and their job is to essentially, you know…”
Feb 26, 2023
Calendly shifted engineering horizons allocation from 70/30/0 to 30/60/10
“Now, the year one that I was here, the percentage of resources we spent on sort of that first horizon and the second horizon was about a seventy-thirty split, and we put zero percent of our resources on horizon three. That was too far out in the future, and we…”