This was an idea I was toying with for a while, and even started working on as a side project, so while I'm kind of bummed these guys have beaten me to the punc

This was an idea I was toying with for a while, and even started working on as a side project, so while I'm kind of bummed these guys have beaten me to the punch (and it looks like they did a nice job doing it), in a way it's sort of nice to see that other teams out there concur with my assessment that the current state of performance reviews is nothing short of awful. I think the real question for something like this is: Can you convince management that its a big enough problem? Ask any rank and file employee at a mid size company and they will tell you that evaluations are miserable, and borderline useless. When I mentioned some ideas for improving evaluations to my manager at my current job, the feedback I got was basically that the current system "wasn't great", (and basically everyone agreed), but it wasn't bad enough to justify the pain of switching to something else. Convince the decision makers that bad evaluations are enough of a problem to justify switching, and then make it easy to do so, and reviews could actually (gasp!) become useful again.