How Cal.com Runs Async Standups at Scale Across 18 Countries
Cal.com is a fully remote team of 30+ people spread across 18 countries. With an 85% engineering workforce operating across every time zone imaginable, they can’t rely on synchronous standups. Before Windmill, keeping them consistent meant David Borenius, Head of HR, was spending his time manually pinging people and maintaining spreadsheets.
With Windmill’s Pulse feature, standups now run automatically across Cal.com’s engineering and GTM teams, with responses streaming live into Slack threads complete with GitHub links and project details.
The efficiency gains go beyond standups. With performance reviews coming up, David is looking forward to how Windmill’s data-driven approach will change how Cal.com recognises its engineers’ work. “Windmill is just collecting data from everything you feed to it and data is just neutral,” he said. “There’s no bias towards it — so it’s very, very good in terms of having unbiased performance reviews.”
The time saved isn’t just measured in clicks. It’s time David can reinvest in revenue-driving work — which was the point all along.
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