I collected a few "Occasionally misses expectations" myself. These were invariably preceded by a question from whichever manager I was reporting to at the time, along the lines of "Do you think you've performed well this quarter?" I learned after a while that this was a kind of code.
Performance review days at Google were 2 of my least favorite days of the year. I never learned to play the game and was almost always disappointed. I even had 2 performance improvement plans. I somehow survived the first one, and quit the company rather than face the second, which seemed clearly designed to get rid of me.
You're not the only one! I can sympathize with management - measuring performance is difficult, and peer review seems a promising approach.
I survived a PIP, mainly out of stubbornness, then resigned, then was fired. I enjoyed most of my time at Google. After a while, though, there was no project that I was enthusiastic about working on, save my own, and I was unable to get that one funded. In retrospect, I should have just worked on it anyway until either I could launch it externally or I was fired.
Milo Colon 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can he be Italian 🇮🇹 ? Or maybe Spanish 🇪🇸 ?
Or both!
I collected a few "Occasionally misses expectations" myself. These were invariably preceded by a question from whichever manager I was reporting to at the time, along the lines of "Do you think you've performed well this quarter?" I learned after a while that this was a kind of code.
Performance review days at Google were 2 of my least favorite days of the year. I never learned to play the game and was almost always disappointed. I even had 2 performance improvement plans. I somehow survived the first one, and quit the company rather than face the second, which seemed clearly designed to get rid of me.
You're not the only one! I can sympathize with management - measuring performance is difficult, and peer review seems a promising approach.
I survived a PIP, mainly out of stubbornness, then resigned, then was fired. I enjoyed most of my time at Google. After a while, though, there was no project that I was enthusiastic about working on, save my own, and I was unable to get that one funded. In retrospect, I should have just worked on it anyway until either I could launch it externally or I was fired.
My hindsight revelation was that I shouldn't have stayed in a dysfunctional group in a job I disliked. It seems so obvious now.
Current / former Google managers, feel free to say more about the performance review fun.
Almost all of these would make excellent titles on a business card, ala old Apple.