How to Build a Good Performance Review: Badoo's Experience
summary
A Badoo engineering team describes how they built an effective performance-review process for software engineers. The talk covers problems with common approaches (top-down quotas, annual long forms, KPIs that annoy engineers) and presents Badoo’s practical experience and solutions for making reviews useful and less bureaucratic.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction to performance review
- 6:06Purpose of performance review
- 9:24When to use performance review
- 10:27Badoo's constraints
- 14:42Badoo's values and impact
- 17:09Company growth challenges
- 19:40Badoo's review process
- 27:38Standard review framework
- 31:10Assessment and calibration process
- 38:22Main review problems
- 41:36Rating inflation issues
- 45:28Separating evaluation and growth
- 47:13When review makes sense
- 48:39Conclusion and Q&A
related talks
41m"Platform" at Badoo: How We Built Infrastructure Development
46mPerformance Reviews that Don't Suck
28mThe ins and outs of evaluating engineers
43mPayment processing in Badoo — an inside view
46mLevel Up Code Review: How to Get the Most Out of It
44mIncrementally Improving Performance
42mEmpowering Individuals with Transforming Performance Reviews
49mAgile Team Performance Management