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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies ask employees to set goals? by wonderingdev on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:30AM (#26593276)
How would that help precisely? You should put more effort in hiring, if you're worried about developers not understanding how to help a company grow. In the past I worked for startups and very small startups. The wannabe-corp ones have goals, the real ones don't. They want to stay afloat and grow as well, but transparency is enough motivation for devs to do their job: we need the MVP or we sink, all of us.

Genuine question: do you have experience in management with OKRs? Do you have some examples proving they helped in your career? Even made-up examples, just to understand what people expect from OKRs.

Re:Ask HN: Why do companies ask employees to set goals? by dwhitney on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:09PM (#26593763)
If only Tom had implemented a good set of 360 performance reviews and growth plans, then we wouldn't even know who Zuckerberg is.