Ask HN: How good startups do performance appraisal?

8 points by thar2012 13 years ago | 3 comments

I feel performance appraisal at big companies sucks. Just want to learn if any body finds out to do this difficult task in better way ?

paulsutter 13 years ago |

At Valve, apparently they're crowdsourced from all employees:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/whos-boss-isnt-one-040100888.h...

You might want to look at 360 evaluations.

ahmedaly 13 years ago |

I have the same question, specially if you offer your services for free to the users.. like facebook.

yashchandra 13 years ago |

Performance appraisal at large corporations definitely suck. Reasons are many. But the point that managers or companies miss is the fact that performance cannot/should not just be appraised at the end of the year by collecting feedback. It has to be a constant process throughout the year. Most companies miss this trick. It is always easier to get better feedback when I delivered something by asking the team involved in it rather than waiting for next 6 months and go to them with a bunch of questions.Also, give feedback constantly. By the end of the year, it will be a breeze to determine the overall performance.