The chief people officer of Yahoo says the company ditched formal performance reviews because it created unwanted ‘emotive moments’

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1. Stacked rankings and PIPs should be done with.

2. If Yahoo’s performance reviews were anything like my employer’s review then they were a complete waste of time anyhow. Employee writes up a digest of what they did for the year, boss says “looks good” with no helpful feedback, and bye bye.

3. “How do you FEEL about how you’re doing?”

4. Yahoo still exists? Why?

5. Yahoo is still around?

6. I feel like there’s a subset of problems in today’s work culture that are just caused by poor management. Work from home should be a boon to companies, but managers don’t know how to set expectations apparently and productivity does down. If you had good management that knew their team and set expectations it would be a win win, but they don’t know how to do that. 

   Employee reviews SHOULD be a good thing for everyone, identify areas I’m struggling and let’s figure out how to make it so I’m not struggling in them anymore. Learning about it should make my job easier for myself, and allow me to be a better coworker for my team. They’re often just nonsense, or punitive, probably because the manager doesn’t know how to actually evaluate me and help me get better at my job. 

   For the amount of managers that exist, it seems like they sure are terrible at managing.  

7. Yahoo used to have this insanely good library called YUI which helped you build web apps. Now they don’t. That is all.

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