# Business, Compensation, Culture, Employee-Happiness, Engineering-Leadership, High-Purpose-Environmen

Published articles for Business, Compensation, Culture, Employee-Happiness, Engineering-Leadership, High-Purpose-Environmen.

This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles.

## Performance Reviews Considered Harmful

DevFeed: [Performance Reviews Considered Harmful](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/performance-reviews-considered-harmful-39934.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/performance-reviews-considered-harmful/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2024-11-02T05:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [business-compensation-culture-employee-happiness-engineering-leadership-high-purpose-environmen](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-compensation-culture-employee-happiness-engineering-leadership-high-purpose-environmen.md>), [communication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communication.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-manager](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-manager.md>), [feedback](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feedback.md>), [growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/growth.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [manager](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/manager.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>), [teamwork](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teamwork.md>)

### AI overview

An opinion article argues that performance reviews in software companies can create unhealthy individual incentives, undervalue team contributions, and occur too infrequently to support effective feedback and improvement.

### Source excerpt

Performance Reviews Considered Harmful Performance reviews are widely accepted in software companies to provide feedback, justify or object to promotions, and discuss compensation increases. Typically, they occur between an engineering manager and their reports, often cited as a necessary function of management within an organization. They are simply "how the world works." Big companies do them, small companies do them, and highly paid consultants develop new and better ways of conducting them.