Lol, Meta (with their known intense PSC culture) of all places is doing this?
This is a two-week period that kick-starts the review process for both managers and employees.
https://candor.co/articles/tech-careers/performance-reviews-...
It's a thing where you get performance reviews every 6 months, and where every minute contribution gets scored. Or so I've been told by a former mid-level Facebook manager who quit after a bit more than a year because he couldn't stand that toxic place anymore.
I found it particularly funny that the interviewers who gave the thumbs up to hire him would get bad marks because of his early departure.
If anything, that makes this internal announcement worse because of the whiplash.
"We're going to make PSC less onerous and stressful by only doing it once a year!"
"Just kidding, we're actually going full Hunger Games with the new once-a-year cycle!"
There's something interesting going on here. I agree that people will probably perceive annual PSC as less stressful than semiannual PSC. But even there, some people might not.
And there is a point where more frequent is very clearly less stressful. If you did PSC once a week, it wouldn't be cause for stress, it would just be something you did every week.
After copy-and-pasting the same answers year after year in the self evaluation form, my manager got the message. That was, what, 10 years ago?
Now, once per year, we have a 20min meeting, he tells me “good job”, gives my new salary and RSUs, and we’re good.
It’s great.
i have been really pleasantly surprised at how pervasive this mindset is among pretty much every one of my colleagues. it's something that i wanted at my previous jobs. i suppose it's not for everyone but it's been working for the small sample of people i know.
At first blush, someone that thinks they can game that kind of system.
So: unlock a bunch of achievements (I don't care about tech debt do u?), try to diminish the contributions of coworkers, cash out when you win and then head off to the next company.
I don't know if you can graft that onto a company, though. Amazon's like that because Bezos is. It seems like Facebook/Meta is more like playing fast and loose and damn the consequences, which isn't exactly the same thing. Being the best is not the same as winning, though neither of 'em are necessarily nice at the highest levels of performance.