List: Performance Reviews | Curated by Dr Stuart Woolley

Oct 25, 2024
32 stories
Performance Reviews
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Who’s Who In The Performance Review?When the only technical person in the room is you.
Oct 25
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Oct 25
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
No-One Reads Your Performance ReviewsExcept HR, but that’s only because it’s one of their SMART goals.
Oct 8
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Oct 8
2
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Working In The Nether WorldYou’re not permanent, nor are you a contractor, you’re trapped between dimensions!
Aug 24
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Aug 24
2
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
PIP, PIP, Hooray! You’re Getting Well & Truly Shafted Today!The ultimate death knell notification in software engineering tenure.
Jul 31
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Jul 31
12
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Improving The Performance Review ProcessMight taking into account the distractions, time wasting, obstruction, and obfuscation be a path to true meritocracy?
Jul 18
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Jul 18
5
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Whatever Happened To Profit Sharing?Once a fairly common practice, it’s been replaced with company landfill, soggy pizza, and lunchtime yoga sessions.
Jun 2
5
Jun 2
5
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Negotiating A Pay Rise In Software Engineering?5 Progressive Tips on how earn more, make lots of management friends, and influence HR too!
Feb 9, 2022
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Feb 9, 2022
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Utter Genius Of Performance ReviewsDesigned carefully by management as a tool of worker oppression!
May 6
May 6
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Domination Of Human ResourcesThe ever evolving and extending reach of HR is itself endangering the wellness of employees with its constant interference and…
Feb 9
3
Feb 9
3
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
What Your Coworkers Earn Doesn’t Really MatterWhilst discussing salary helps, doing interviews and getting offers from other companies is the only real way to get a decent pay rise.
Jan 27
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Jan 27
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Dr Stuart Woolley
How To Alienate Your EmployeesA short missive on the efforts of corporate modus operandi when it comes to salary related deflection techniques.
Jan 10
3
Jan 10
3
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Pyramid Of RecruitmentIt’s not an MLM, honestly, it’s a flat org chart, we’re all qualified, and we don’t offer recruitment bonuses at all!
Dec 19, 2023
3
Dec 19, 2023
3
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Sowing The Seeds Of Beyond Expectations!Best practices for acing next year’s performance review through making yourself suitably hard to miss in the modern corporate dystopia.
Nov 1, 2023
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Nov 1, 2023
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Futility Of Small Scale AppraisalsIn anything but larger companies, performance reviews are an utter waste of both time and resources.
Jun 18, 2023
Jun 18, 2023
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Is Company Loyalty Not Looking For Another Job?It’s never selfish to have your own best interests in mind.
Jun 17, 2023
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Jun 17, 2023
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Counter Measures — Going Nuclear In a Performance ReviewOr, “Remembering that you’re always the most important person in the room”.
May 26, 2023
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May 26, 2023
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Constructive Criticism Is ImpossibleWorkplaces can’t improve if there’s always a fear of reprisal.
May 14, 2023
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May 14, 2023
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Dark Side Of HR In Software EngineeringHow HR initiatives are often misaligned and commonly counterproductive.
Apr 25, 2023
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Apr 25, 2023
1
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Cracking The Code: Tackling Emotional Challenges In Software EngineeringWe’re not immune from them, we just keep them all well hidden inside.
Apr 18, 2023
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Apr 18, 2023
2
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CodeX
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Dr Stuart Woolley
Management’s Most Fatal FlawThey’re an easy target, that’s for sure, but what is their worst failing?
Apr 15, 2023
Apr 15, 2023