<story><title>Writing good performance self reviews</title><url>https://andrewhuth.substack.com/p/writing-good-performance-self-reviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SpeedilyDamage</author><text>This is not universally true, and if you&amp;#x27;re somewhere like this, you can and probably should move if you value being valued.&lt;p&gt;As someone who&amp;#x27;s in the room when we go over these, if you write &amp;quot;stop doing performance reviews&amp;quot; the whole room rolls their eyes, and is not very kind.&lt;p&gt;Maybe stop shooting yourself in the foot?  Give it a shot, for like 5 years, see how it goes.  It&amp;#x27;s about an hour of your time annually, so if even at a 20% chance of success that feels like a wise investment.</text></item><item><author>eppp</author><text>As near as I can tell, I could write literally anything on a self review and it would make no difference to anyone in any way. My first item has been &amp;#x27;stop doing performance reviews&amp;#x27; on the &amp;#x27;what can we do to help you&amp;#x27; section for years.&lt;p&gt;This is a useless exercise, raises come or not regardless of what is said or done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icedchai</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re not very kind because someone actually told the truth. Many of us roll our eyes when asked to fill out these ridiculous forms. One previous company had everyone rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 5 for various aspects of the corporate culture. How did &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; drive innovation to achieve corporate synergies over the past 6 months?&lt;p&gt;Most reviews are finely crafted BS. And it generally takes much more than an hour annually. If you have to do a full blown &amp;quot;360 peer review&amp;quot; process (which is very common) it can take at least a day+.</text></comment>
<story><title>Writing good performance self reviews</title><url>https://andrewhuth.substack.com/p/writing-good-performance-self-reviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SpeedilyDamage</author><text>This is not universally true, and if you&amp;#x27;re somewhere like this, you can and probably should move if you value being valued.&lt;p&gt;As someone who&amp;#x27;s in the room when we go over these, if you write &amp;quot;stop doing performance reviews&amp;quot; the whole room rolls their eyes, and is not very kind.&lt;p&gt;Maybe stop shooting yourself in the foot?  Give it a shot, for like 5 years, see how it goes.  It&amp;#x27;s about an hour of your time annually, so if even at a 20% chance of success that feels like a wise investment.</text></item><item><author>eppp</author><text>As near as I can tell, I could write literally anything on a self review and it would make no difference to anyone in any way. My first item has been &amp;#x27;stop doing performance reviews&amp;#x27; on the &amp;#x27;what can we do to help you&amp;#x27; section for years.&lt;p&gt;This is a useless exercise, raises come or not regardless of what is said or done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brazzledazzle</author><text>It’s never only been an hour of my time anywhere I’ve worked. At minimum one day but if you are provided feedback with back and forth (and most of my managers have done that) and you meet about it at least twice a year you’re looking at 2+ days worth of your time.&lt;p&gt;Are sure it only takes your subordinates an hour?</text></comment>