Sunday, March 28, 2021

Performance Review: Biases that Could Hurt You and How to Counter Them (from a Manager)

 March 28, 2021

Here is the link. 

Your performance review might have biases when your manager delivers it to you. How can you spot them, and what can you do to counter them, and get a more fair review? At Uber, as an engineering manager, I've done dozens of performance reviews. I learned about biases early on through unconscious bias training: and I was guilty of most of them. I'm sharing the most common biases I've observed, and my advice on countering them. Read a longer blog post accompanying the video: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pe... 00:00 | Intro 00:56 | What are biases? 01:50 | Types of feedback you could get on a performance review 03:43 | A trick to get more specific feedback from overly generic feedback 04:49 | The 8 most common biases on performance reviews and ways to counter them 04:55 | The recency bias and countering it (Bias #1) 06:18 | The strictness bias and countering it (Bias #2) 09:06 | The leniency bias (Bias #3) 09:34 | The Horns Bias (Bias #4) 12:15 | The Halo Bias (Bias #5) 13:58 | The Similarity Bias (Bias #6) 16:26 | The Central Tendency Bias (Bias #7) 17:07 | Fun fact: the reason why forced curves exist 18:47 | The Contrasting Bias 22:16 | On pushing your manager to give you better quality feedback Connect with me on other platforms: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyor... - Newsletter on software engineering: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ne...


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