Comments on: Self Review forms suck…

By: dledford

dledford — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:30:56 +0000

Well, most of the people in Red Hat *are* hard to compare against, for all of us That’s a big part of what makes relative comparisons hard here because you have to try and guess what the average level *in Red Hat* is as oppossed to the average level of, say, the college students you went to school with (God I would rank high in that crowd

By: alchemist

alchemist — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:12:53 +0000

True. With Michael managing and not coding (gods, there's a damn shame. Michael rocks), you've got a good point. Urgh.

To be honest, I'd hate to have to compare myself to you or Jeff or Rik. OTOH, I ahve MikeW, Jenny, and Spot in my group. Which is just as difficult.

By: deviant_

deviant_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:53:11 +0000

I can’t even come close to answering that section. I barely have any idea what I’ll *actually* be working on next week, much less next year. There’s the big looming question of “do you actually want us to integrate $ACQUISITION, or would you rather we tackle provisioning?”.

By: dledford

dledford — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:23:04 +0000

Me. Local comparators? Not even close. There is only one other kernel engineer in Raleigh, and that’s Jeff. Michael is a manager, not a coder any more (by job requirement). Everyone else is either remote (more or less) or Westford.

Oh well, I’ll get my review in a little bit (I’m actually just now finishing my self review because of how long I’ve been out) and then we’ll see if I missed any by a mile

By: dledford

dledford — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:17:37 +0000

Yeah, the questions could be good if asked properly, but there is a lot of room there to be doing the right thing while still answering wrong. I don’t envy any of the managers that have lots of people under them And then they have this Goals section. So what are my goals? To get my work done maybe? I just put in one item for Featurezilla entries and another for bugzilla entries. I have a few others I put in as well, but in general a lot of what I do is in response to situations that come up, and you can’t put that in as goals.

By: alchemist

alchemist — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:49:13 +0000

What's worse is all but *ONE* of the other SEs are here - the rest are elsewhere in the country. At least you have some locals to try to compare to. Me? I got no clue. For all I know the other SE's are rock stars and I'm the roadie.

Or the bus driver.

And yeah, I missed one or two by a mile.

By: deviant_

deviant_ — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:37:26 +0000

Also, the review forms have these ultra-silly questions, which wind up simplifying to “do you do your work?” in remarkably few steps. Even when they aren’t completely braindead, they tend to elicit responses such as “I procrastinate as much as possible so I won’t have to redo everything when we change our minds four times”. Ugh.