| My manager got the message after I copied my personal growth and goals 3 years in a row from the previous self-review. In my late forties, I know what I can do and I’m very good at it. I know what I can’t do well, and I avoid it and tell them to make sure things don’t go bad. (Mostly anything related to managing other people.) I will learn new technical things on an as-needed basis if there’s a project that requires it, or if it tickles my personal interests. They know that, it won’t change. I don’t need personal career growth plans. I have no interest in being anything more than a principal engineer. I don’t need goals. Give me a complex technical task and it will get done. It’s been 8 years now since I rejected to fill in a self-review, and things couldn’t have been better. Every year, I get a nice bonus, a boat load of RSUs, and an above average salary increase. They seem to be happy with my work. I hope you as a manager would respect a goal of “I want things to stay the way they are, and that’s the end of it.” |