The amount of engineering manager hours spent on the "performance cycle" at Google and Meta is just insane. I honestly think it's a huge waste, they could get

The amount of engineering manager hours spent on the "performance cycle" at Google and Meta is just insane. I honestly think it's a huge waste, they could get near-identical results with 10x less time spent on this whole bloated, process-heavy, over-"scientific" game . That would free up managers to work on the real problems, such as the complete disorganisation and inability to deliver cross-team projects