I would concur. The bonus system at prior fine employers usually looks like Company_perf_scaling * Bonus_pool * Group_political_pie_slice * Personal_perf; I usu

I would concur. The bonus system at prior fine employers usually looks like Company_perf_scaling * Bonus_pool * Group_political_pie_slice * Personal_perf; I usually assess it as "magic money". Yearly bonuses IMO should be rolled into base salary raises. Bonuses otherwise should be project based IMO. "Good job on the big projects, have xyz $/stock". Bonus structures for ordinary engineering / programming where a bonus might be >20% of total salary seems to be out of line with our normal work output.