I think the most interesting part of the article is when it mentions that anecdotes about an employee's performance most-often dominate these OLRs. It seems that a company with as concrete of a business goal as Amazon's would have the ability to use a more objective means of measuring employee performance.
The nice thing about knowing everything going on in your company is being able to judge it easily when it exceeds expectations. The shitty thing about standardized metrics is gaming those metrics.
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I think the most interesting part of the article is when it mentions that anecdotes about an employee's performance most-often dominate these OLRs. It seems that a company with as concrete of a business goal as Amazon's would have the ability to use a more objective means of measuring employee performance.
The nice thing about knowing everything going on in your company is being able to judge it easily when it exceeds expectations. The shitty thing about standardized metrics is gaming those metrics.