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Grading is irrelevant to work performance, exactly like any other metric we try to measure when evaluating software developers' performance.

The only sane alternative is demonstrating skills through completing projects. Hopefully we move towards more than that

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Is definitely frustrating as a software developer. The amount of time that I've spent preparing to be graded and then subsequently graded amounts to maybe a fifth of my waking life. Then a couple of years ago I knocked out some software projects and got a job purely based on them... What a waste of life.

If it's any consolation at any sufficiently large company you'll be graded again based on arbitrary metrics b/c your manager (and their managers) have no idea what your actual impact is.

The modern incarnation of school is, after all, supposed to make you into a good employee.

Had a manager tell me I needed to be more like another engineer who had more commits. I checked out his commits and it was full of repairing typos in READMEs, capitalizing SQL queries, removing comments from code.

I didn’t work for that manager much longer

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