Performance Reviews, Company Culture, Bad Incentives

Performance Reviews! Everyone's most beloved topic and favorite activity...but how does that impact company culture...and what kind of incentives do they give rise to? 

Rob and PJ dive deep into these questions and explore how much past behaviors that gave rise to success....actually become more important that the pursuit of success itself?

Chapters

• 0:00 Performance Reviews, Company Culture, Bad Incentives
• 0:09 Opening
• 14:04 Stack Ranking Madness
• 18:49 Sucking at Big Tech
• 21:15 Past Behaviors as Stagnant Indicators of Future Success?
• 22:11 Incentives and Behaviors
• 26:01 Interviews
• 30:03 Skills, People, and Experience
• 35:31 How Folks are Laid Off
• 41:39 Tech Corporate Culture
• 48:22 Friendly but Not Friends
• 52:34 March towards Mediocity
• 57:37 Company Evolution
• 1:00:37 Hope for the Future