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Comment by ping_pong | Hacker News Reader

Facebook employees are evaluated on many things, including number of reviews that they participate in. My friend said that lead to a lot of engineers adding "+1" comments to as many reviews as possible, or requesting "Thank you"s for responding to emails.

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LMAO that's the funniest thing I heard all day, primarily because where I work that's not evaluated at all.

More power to the managers, but all good when your managers are likable people.

> [...] requesting "Thank you"s for responding to emails.

What does this mean?

It sounds like if employee A sends an email to employee B and employee B sends a response to A, employee B expects (implied or explicitly stated in their response) a "thank you for your time/response" email from employee A. Just a guess though.

I’d love to know as well. Thank you @rubidium for starting this comment tree and also @ping_pong for additional insights. Clarifications and/or corrections are totally welcome as this my comment is based on pure speculation.

Facebook has an internal tool called thanksbot that you can use to “send thanks” to people, and these are recorded and can be discussed at performance review time. Ideally only in situation where it actually matters (thanks for the refactor that made our service use 50% less gCPU!) but obviously anything can be gamed.