I have often complained about my employer on here, for their lack of foresight, their lack of empathy from the top, and (right now) their lack of really giving a shit about us as humans during a pandemic.

But. At the end of the day, I stay here for less money than I could make somewhere else for two reasons:

A) I don't like moving; and

B) They leave me the fuck alone. They don't really know what my office does. They don't really know how we do it. But they do know that we provide massive value for the expense. And they let us do it with as little oversight as they can stomach.

That's worth something.

I can't name my employer (too small - less than a thousand egineers) but I can tell you they are tracking using a plugin for Atlassian. We are an Atlassian shop through and through including our source code control. They deployed this plugin last year. What is really sinister is that it's open to all employees so they can see in real time how they rank against their peers ącross the various metrics.

I'm pretty sure Atlassian peddles this product to everyone who uses their suite.

Do you think this rating correlates with reality?

Of course. The best engineer should have the best workaround to inflate the highest artificial metric.

Exactly. We already know that such metrics do not identify the best performers, they identify those who are willing and able to game the system the most.