Docs are very useful. I liked them, especially considering how slow development could be there, It's just that in my experience they incentivized them more than

Docs are very useful. I liked them, especially considering how slow development could be there, It's just that in my experience they incentivized them more than they needed to. For example writing a doc while you are already implementing something only takes like a day but it looks a lot better than a day of coding to people without context. Luckily at least for lower levels they switched to perf evaluators being closer organizationally and the manager being there so at least there was a little context (though often my manager was busy enough that they didn't fully know what I was doing either). There were a lot of specifics essentially check boxes for promo and to a much lesser extent ratings and eventually I decided it was easier to just give them what they want