Performance review...

Sander Rossel

Got it tomorrow. As far as I know I'm performing pretty well, so I'm not worried. If anything was wrong I would've heard it by now. Still, can't hurt to ask, any tips on what (not) to say? :)

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Lost User

Don't say: "Boss, if you were as smart as you think you are, you wouldn't be stuck at a level where you need to concern yourself with my performance!"

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Brisingr Aerowing

If your employer is environmentally conscious you probably shouldn't compare your performance to JSOP's car.

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Sander Rossel

What about "you're only so smart that you need to concern yourself with my performance, yet you earn twice my salary so I guess you're doing something right after all!" :D

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Sander Rossel

What about his guns? :laugh:

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Marc Clifton

Ask them: 1. So, when do I get to review YOUR performance? 2. By what objective criteria do you review performance? 3. If my performance did not exceed your expectations, who's fault is that REALLY? 4. If my performance exceeded your expectations, who else contributed to that success? 4 is always and interesting question because it will reveal whether your boss is tuned in to how well (or not) the team is functioning. Then again, you may elect not to ask any of those questions. ;) Marc

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Lost User

Yes! That will put him in his place! :)

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Duncan Edwards Jones

The performance review is the management equivalent of the security charade that is airport security. Basically you have to do the little performance and neither party has any belief in its efficacy or indeed purpose. Your manager will get one of these and his manager and so on - and at some point the company will feel it "really knows its people". Then the edicts on grading performance by a bell curve or "you can't give person x an exceeds rating as they only got promoted last year and its person y's turn" will come along and completely undo any good the review process was originally designed to achieve, In short, I give performance reviews a "failed to meet expectations" grade this year.

Sander Rossel

I already joked about 1 :laugh: 3 can be very true, but is also very tricky... Let's put it this way, my code didn't break because someone else did a really good job writing theirs. And of course my code breaking is my responsibility, but it would be a lot easier to take that responsibility if I wasn't having spaghetti every day. Well, theoretically :D My boss (he doesn't like that word) is actually pretty much in tune with the team, he's actually just part of the team. He helps with issues, discusses on a developer's level, and is open for idea's. I'm pretty lucky to have him as a manager :D

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Dan Neely

If I wanted to stir the pot, I can submit feedback on anyone at my employer up to and including the CEO. OTOH, even if I gave the big boss a good review I'm not sure that the attention I'd get by doing so would be beneficial.

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Sander Rossel

You seem pretty pessimistic :laugh: Our company is basically a general manager -> team leads (4) -> team members (of which I am one). So tomorrow I'm sitting down with my team lead and the general manager. I know the general manager a little bit, sometimes I talk to him at the coffee machine or some such. My team lead is a really good guy, so I'm pretty positive :) It's my first performance review with this company though.

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Regards, Sander

Kevin Marois

You could always use this[^] to help with your performance.

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Richard Andrew x64

You can always point out your Code Project reputation score!

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

What a performance review is?

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Lost User

4 simple words: SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

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jeron1

and how you spent xx hours on CP accruing that score.

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Richard Deeming

Don't be Peter[^]. :D

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Sander Rossel

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: When they hired me last year they asked me the same question, I answered "ideally, in your chair" :laugh:

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Sander Rossel

And then that one simple counter-question, "why?" :sigh:

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Sander Rossel

During work hours :laugh:

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