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Feels like it really depends on ego. If your employer only hires "rockstar" developers, they'll get used to being treated like rockstar and won't be able to han

Feels like it really depends on ego. If your employer only hires "rockstar" developers, they'll get used to being treated like rockstar and won't be able to handle any criticism. Same goes for IT and Ops, if everyone gets treated like a hero, no one will ever see a need for improvement. The best performance reviews I've had the are ones where my manager/TL is asking me what I'd like to improve in my work and my team's work. And the next part actually establishing a meaningful and attainable goal. If your spouse does something that drives you nuts, do you bottle that resentment up and save it for later (too late) or do you have the open and honest conversation to get through it early?

CoolGuySteve 7y ago
>If your spouse does something that drives you nuts, do you bottle that resentment up and save it for later (too late) or do you have the open and honest conversation to get through it early? Of course not, I wait until the end of the year, compose a 360 analysis using feedback from 5 of her peers, and we work through her KPIs together. Come on, this isn't about ego, if you had the social interaction of a "performance review" in any other setting, people would think you're a psychopath. Coming away from these meetings with positive feelings seems more like Stockholm syndrome than anything else.
- anon73044 7y ago
  >Coming away from these meetings with positive feelings seems more like Stockholm syndrome than anything else. Why would an employer want you to experience anything less? And if you really hated that feeling, you'd have already started looking for somewhere else to work.