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I have never met a company that was able to reliably gauge performance. And would not put that against anyone unless they were intentionally fired and we're eva

• xyzelement 4y ago
  // I have never met a company that was able to reliably gauge performance I have had the opposite experience. Every company I've worked for, the employee ranking matched my perception of that employee pretty well on average.
  • astrange 4y ago
    How did you know their ranking? Smells of circularity.
    • xyzelement 4y ago
      Two ways. Seeing who was laid off in performance rounds. Also as a manager, sat in plenty of calibration meetings where we lined up rankings across managers.
      • astrange 4y ago
        …sure, but that's what circularity means. You think it's accurate because you set it. The problem is when people are doing something useful the managers haven't noticed. (Or is successfully bullshitting instead of contributing anything.)