Performance Reviews and Calibrations
Understand the complete performance review and calibration process used in engineering management. Explore how to collect self-reviews and peer feedback, assign fair ratings through calibration meetings, and deliver feedback effectively to support team growth and development.
Performance review process
The performance review process involves evaluating employees based on their contributions and accomplishments over a review cycle. The cycle can be annual (yearly), half-yearly, or quarterly. Most companies do it half-yearly or yearly.
The review is mainly built around two aspects of an employee’s performance:
What did the individual accomplish throughout the cycle across various evaluation axes?
How well did the individual collaborate with others, and what did their peers have to say about them?
Self-review
The first step in the performance review process is self-review. The individual summarizes their performance and accomplishments throughout the cycle along certain axes that the company defines. Broadly speaking, these accomplishments include project impact, collaboration, long-term direction, engineering excellence, team building, etc. Regardless of the specifics, which may vary from company to company, most of these parameters fall under either engineering ...