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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing performance appraisal at your s... by jerkstate on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:27AM (#13131426)
Like CEO pay, purely metrics driven performance reviews lead to gaming the metrics. Maybe you wouldn't do it, but how would you feel if your peers were getting better raises and bonuses than you because they file and close more do-nothing bugs, or ship more features because they wrote fewer tests.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing performance appraisal at your s... by ryandrake on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:48AM (#13131648)
This would be a problem with the choice of metrics, and I've already conceded that coming up with the right "un-gameable" metrics is a tough problem indeed.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing performance appraisal at your s... by corysama on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:22PM (#13132030)
At Pixar they concluded that all metrics would be gamed eventually. So, they responded by changing up the metrics on a regular basis.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing performance appraisal at your s... by _RPM on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:02PM (#13136104)
when a metric becomes a target...
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