[mbielski]

The entire process is a complete waste of time for all involved as it is not linked to anything. Not raises, not promotions... nothing. It's like the people in the adminisphere were told that they needed to do them to be considered a "real" company so last year we started having them shoved down our throats. This year the engineering team was told that we score too high and make the rest of the company look bad. Give me a bleeping break!

[commandlinefan]

Joel Spolsky had an interesting (and, I think, accurate) take on the pointlessness of performance appraisals: the only possible outcomes are it can be neutral, or you can completely piss off the person you're appraising. If the appraisal is anything less than glowing, you're just going to demoralize the person you're reviewing: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/03/incentive-pay-cons...

[mbielski]

Yep, I completely agree about the accuracy. Last year it was neutral. This year it slipped down a notch.