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Hate to burst the ego bubble, but hitting metrics is what you were hired to do.

You are hired to fulfil a job role based on your experience. Metrics are just a tool that tries to highlight your effectiveness for corpos too large to have oversight in the actual productivity of the workforce.

Put differently: if you were hired for a certain job, and your personal convictions don't align with that job such that you don't identify as someone who wants to "hit those metrics", find another job.

The managers could've been more upfront about that and what those metrics are during the hiring process!

On the other hand, as a potential employee it doesn't hurt to ask during the hiring process if it matters to you.

For a large enough company, it's a given that there will be metrics, and a lot of people don't care much what they are, so it's not always something to spend time on in the interview.

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