The future is bright at the worlds biggest preventive wellness brand!! - Anonymous Calm Employee Review

5.0
Feb 15, 2024
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Pros

We have a transparent leadership team that cares about our people and our success. That leadership team has made some tough decisions to make sure we are set-up to win. The passion of our people inspire our work every day. It took a little while to get here, but we have made great strides in our Calm Business solution analytics and, with the release of Calm Health, we are engaging prospects and customers in a conversation about expanded capabilities to support the wellness of their people. And, there's more to come to enhance the user experience, expand our resources, augment analytics and widen our tools. Add our Workshops offering to the mix--with new bundles and packages--and we have more to sell, and more ways to engage our customers and prospects than we have ever had. Take a look at the content Calm offers. There isn't a better wellness solution content portfolio anywhere. We continue to invest in celebrity sleep stories, add innovative content using AI and are researching new features to keep users engaged regularly to support their resilience and mental fitness. The content team here is crushing it! We've added a few small things to our selling approach and adjusted the alignment of our resources to be more efficient and effective. One example is combining our ADR and SDR roles into a single BDR role. While we are a virtual-first company (office in Palo Alto), Calm leadership promotes bringing our people and our teams together, while scheduling and encouraging virtual get togethers. This has helped our culture restore its balance and thrive. Good benefits. Great support. A killer brand. A unified team. A great place to work! A ridiculously important mission.

Cons

No 401k match available to employees. As we continue to build the B2B business, the pace is fast. The work is rewarding, but we have a lot to do. This isn't for someone who doesn't handle change well and struggle with resilience (we have an app for that!).

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5.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

Amazing company, it’s been a fantastic place to work.

Cons

I have nothing negative to say - it’s been great!

2.0
May 4, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- working at a brand like Calm really opens a lot of doors - I found the pay and benefits to be competitive - my coworkers, direct manager, and team were superb - had genuine work life balance for most of my tenure - the content and the app are genuinely a thing I was proud to work on - lots of room for development and learning - had tons of control over my schedule - if you get laid off they will probably offer you a contract or consulting role because they need the support so…..infinite employment loop!!!

Cons

- there was room for development but never room for comp raises - incredibly sexist boys club energy - not much psychological safety; I lived through two really big layoffs and annual medium layoffs - leadership & strategy: in flux like…a lot! A little directionless? They make lots of big bets and take risks, pivot quickly, take new risks. I think that can be smart but I watched them make the same mistakes repeatedly. Like, that didn’t work the first time! Why are you doing it again! - benefits are good except as soon as you add a dependent onto your health insurance it becomes super expensive - no in person time ever: they did one entire company offsite when I was there which was largely just seminars and very little productivity or team building - the culture is very corporate word salad at times. I felt often like leadership of all levels was trying to avoid just saying the truth or saying something simple and hid behind synonyms. - I’m gonna say it again: SO sexist. And like, the kind of sexist where most of the men are probably progressives and would say that they are feminists, and they probably are! But in practice and in the workplace the women were disregarded, not elevated as leaders, did not get a seat at the table. - AI use: used artificial intelligence to replace human narrators and artists. All of their work right now is largely AI-generated, and they’re eliminating actual human jobs to make poor quality AI content. They don’t even use AI efficiently. Claude Cowork?? No, TikTok AI video slop!!

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Thank you for taking the time to share your review. We appreciate you providing both your positive reflections and your constructive feedback regarding your time with Calm. We take all feedback seriously, and your notes have been shared directly with our leadership team for their review as we continue to evolve. Calm remains deeply committed to maintaining a professional, equitable, and supportive environment for all employees.
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