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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by JJMcJ on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:15PM (#31263949)
Had to look it up. Objectives and key results (OKR, alternatively OKRs). More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR.

Hmm. If you are supposed to not meet all your OKRs, then that guarantees you will have a record of unmeet OKRs, which can be used as ammunition to deny promotion or even fire someone.

So that encourages a sort of favoritism, where the people you want to promote anyway have their missed OKRs overlooked, while the rest of the pack aren't meeting their OKRs.

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by ericbarrett on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:08PM (#31264563)
Never worked at Google but I have seen exactly this happening at other OKR-based companies. Ultimately whether missing your OKRs is framed as valiant struggle or disappointing failure does absolutely depend on external perception.
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