It’s too hard to evaluate people’s work fairly. Any system is going to ignore valuable work or weight things incorrectly. Every employee is different and focuse

It’s too hard to evaluate people’s work fairly. Any system is going to ignore valuable work or weight things incorrectly. Every employee is different and focuses on different things. We aren’t just assembly line workers that can evaluated in widgets per hour. How do you compare someone that ships twice as many PRs to someone that deep dives to fix that one critical bug every week? And having everything be extrinsically motivated is horrible for job satisfaction. It would actually be better to hide the reasons for raise/bonus as much as possible so people want to do their jobs for their own satisfaction (obviously people want to get paid too but it’s best not to have thoughts like “if I fix this bug, what’s the exact $ bonus increase I get”).