[TomVDB]

Performance Summary Cycle.

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.

[achow]

I read that it is once in a year now.

[pavlov]

Yes, they changed it effective this year. No more summer PSC, just the January one.

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!"

[thaumasiotes]

> "We're going to make PSC less onerous and stressful by only doing it once a year!"

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.

[ShamelessC]

What about, you know... _zero_ "PSC"? Sounds like the type of shit a company does when it builds a culture of mistrusting its own employees.

[thaumasiotes]

No performance reviews, ever?

[TomVDB]

That’s de facto my situation.

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.

[ShamelessC]

Have you really never had a job where your boss simply evaluated your performance as needed rather than on some schedule like it's a mundane march towards death for the rest of your career?