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Performance review season survival guide for ICs

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“Feedback cycles can be wonderful things: rarely do we get the space to reflect on and bask in the accomplishments of our team members. But they are also likely to fill us with dread: feedback cycles are time consuming, they involve heavy process, and since the business doesn’t stop moving during this time, they amount to an additional workload that we often avoid addressing until right before the deadlines.” —Jill Wetzler, 2019 “Writing Better Performance Assessments” It’s about that time of year again: performance review season. I used to hate perf review season. I’d procrastine due to the abject dread of tallying up my shortcomings in order to be judged by my superiors. It felt like the career equivalent of getting my report card with the HR system as the permanant record file folder. With the wisdom of amazing leaders and the experience gained as a people manager myself, I’ve learned to actually see performance reviews as a tool for growth and reflection. I’m sharing my learnings h

Introduction “Feedback cycles can be wonderful things: rarely do we get the space to reflect on and bask in the accomplishments of our team members. But they are also likely to fill us with dread: feedback cycles are time consuming, they involve heavy process, and since the business doesn’t stop moving during this time, they amount to an additional workload that we often avoid addressing until right before the deadlines.” —Jill Wetzler, 2019 “ Writing Better Performance Assessments ” It’s about that time of year again: performance review season. I used to hate perf review season. I’d procrasti

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