[djmips]

From what I've heard - It's been changed to a yearly (instead of twice a year) and apparently there's been pressure to rate people at a higher standard with a simple 5 level impact score. 'Not enough impact'. 'Moderate impact'. 'Significant impact'. 'Outstanding impact'. 'Transformative impact'. This feels kind of like something akin to a bell curve with the peak in Significant. I assume the culling will be from the 'Not enough' and possibly 'Moderate' bins. For a complete picture we would also need to understand the old performance process. A Googler could fill us in as this change has happened only this year.

[cmrdporcupine]

Google perf ratings have always been this bizarre thing where "Meets Expectations" was considered a bad review and you better get your act together. (Shame on you for just doing your job.) That curve doesn't sound too different, just new names for same old same old. Like a 1-5 where you'd be disappointed with anything below 4 but the names always had euphemistic cheerful names even when it was a shit review.