I had a similar program and there was also incentives based on year end leveling.

We met all of our goals, but because I was 11 months in they cut it in half.

Then I was supposed to receive the top performance award. However, they gave it to another coworker because I had only been there not quite a year. This of course reduced my bonus by half, but again the monetary award was further reduced again. In the end, even though I was leading all the projects and getting things done I received a quarter of what I should have gotten. The full top grant was given to someone who did basically nothing and came to work maybe three days a week. He was also drunk those three days.

I quit two weeks later. Mostly because a friend called because they had reqs open and they were offering me a 25% increase in pay. That wouldn’t have been as competitive if they hadn’t played so many games.

I heard all on my in progress projects stopped because no one knew what they were doing.