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Re:Ask HN: What does performance management look like at you... by onion2k on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:31AM (#24374754)
It's not a blessing. As bad as performance management, goal setting, and OKRs can be when it's done badly, working for a company that isn't engaged with helping you to improve is far worse. Even if you're motivated to improve on your own you'll be working with people who aren't and that's more stressful and annoying than any number of performance measurement systems.
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Re:Ask HN: What does performance management look like at you... by cbanek on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:48AM (#24374873)
> working for a company that isn't engaged with helping you to improve is far worse

I agree completely, however that is usually far different than "goal setting" in my experience. It's far more about opportunity, which unfortunately is also handed out by management.

> Even if you're motivated to improve on your own you'll be working with people who aren't and that's more stressful and annoying than any number of performance measurement systems.

Welcome to corporate life. I've worked with a lot of people who could care less about doing better, and sometimes that's right (hey, some of those people even have kids, which I would say is a better use of time!). I'd say performance reviews add more stress and strife than remove it.

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Re:Ask HN: What does performance management look like at you... by supernovae on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:53AM (#24374910)
Why concern yourself with everyone having to be like you?
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Re:Ask HN: What does performance management look like at you... by onion2k on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:26AM (#24375189)
Because I'm awesome.
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Re:Ask HN: What does performance management look like at you... by runbsd on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:49AM (#24374877)
Indeed, it breeds apathy. After a while you literally give up on making improvements because nobody else cares to do so, and you just hit massive walls every time you attempt to make change. The best thing you can do is find a different place to work, or start your own business.
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Re:Ask HN: What does performance management look like at you... by sushshshsh on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:07AM (#24375035)
Press X to doubt. Everything going fine at my company, no politics and profits are good. Maybe some rogue wave will come some day but that also happens at companies with lots of performance reviews no?
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