Ask HN: What does performance management look like at your company?
It&#x27;s all honestly completely useless.  I&#x27;ve never had a useful performance review at any company ever.  It&#x27;s either I&#x27;m doing bad, and know it, and that is either my fault or due to reasons outside of my control.  Or I&#x27;m doing well, and know it.  Honestly, sometimes at places things were so bad that I felt I was doing terrible, but I was actually keeping the team going by pushing past a lot of tricky issues.<p>Really I think any company that waits until performance review time is really broken.  That could be a year, or sometimes many years.<p>Also, the usefulness or performance management is usually undermined by the fact that the people doing the worst usually are in hardcore denial as to their performance.  Those people are the hardest to change and manage.  I&#x27;ve rarely seen performance management actually fix a problem, other than making the environment so unpalatable that the person just leaves.<p>I really wish I could have all that time wasted on writing useless &quot;self-reviews&quot; back.  Even if I was staring at a blank wall it&#x27;d be time better spent.