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At your last performance review, how much of what you heard was actually useful? Usually, the reviews happen, the ratings get filed, and nothing shifts because the incentives are backwards. Honest feedback can cost the person giving it (or you), so people soften the truth or provide fluff.

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Competencies

Attitudes

Competencies

Domain Fluency

You cannot own problems or make sound technical decisions without understanding the real-world context your software operates in.

Self
75%
Average
75%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
50%

Impact Awareness

The bridge between doing and mattering; without this, you measure tickets closed rather than problems solved.

Self
100%
Average
83%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
75%

Task Completion

Ideas without execution are worthless, and the ability to reliably move work from "in progress" to "done" is non-negotiable.

Self
75%
Average
92%
Peer 1
100%
Peer 2
75%
Peer 3
100%

Cross-Functional Communication

Software is built by teams of different specialists, and your effectiveness depends on how well you translate across them.

Self
50%
Average
67%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
50%
Peer 3
75%

Requirements Questioning

Knowing when to challenge what's being built versus execute reliably separates engineers who shape outcomes from those who just take orders.

Self
75%
Average
75%
Peer 1
50%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
75%

Written Documentation

Making reasoning visible and durable enables honest disagreement and prevents the same mistakes from being repeated.

Self
50%
Average
75%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
50%
Peer 3
100%

PR & Review Quality

Code review is where candor happens at the micro level: giving honest, categorized feedback and receiving it without defensiveness.

Self
100%
Average
42%
Peer 1
50%
Peer 2
25%
Peer 3
50%

Research Execution

The antidote to solutionism is reducing uncertainty before committing resources through timeboxed, question-driven investigation.

Self
75%
Average
75%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
50%

Working with Product

The most critical cross-functional relationship is where problem ownership is negotiated daily.

Self
100%
Average
83%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
75%

Tool Fluency

Fighting your tools steals energy from harder problems, and foundational efficiency compounds over a career.

Self
75%
Average
92%
Peer 1
100%
Peer 2
75%
Peer 3
100%

Working with Design

For user-facing work, early engagement with design prevents expensive late rework and produces better outcomes.

Self
50%
Average
67%
Peer 1
50%
Peer 2
75%
Peer 3
75%

Attitudes

Reality-Facing

You cannot give honest feedback, make sound strategy, or demonstrate humility without first facing what is actually true.

Self
75%
Average
83%
Peer 1
100%
Peer 2
75%
Peer 3
75%

Transparency About Struggle

Surfacing problems early is how humility shows up at work; hiding struggles is the path to losing your job and your team's trust.

Self
50%
Average
75%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
50%
Peer 3
100%

Team-First

Collective success over individual metrics means credit-sharing, helping teammates, and course-correcting together.

Self
100%
Average
83%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
75%

Completion Drive

The killer instinct for finishing transforms domain knowledge and good intentions into actual shipped value.

Self
75%
Average
75%
Peer 1
100%
Peer 2
75%
Peer 3
50%

Outcome Orientation

Caring about whether work solved the problem, not just whether it shipped, is what separates empowered engineers from ticket-takers.

Self
100%
Average
83%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
75%

Constructive Disagreement

Healthy teams argue about the work directly, then commit; theatrical objections and back-channel complaints corrode trust.

Self
50%
Average
75%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
50%
Peer 3
100%

Asking for Help

Treating help-seeking as normal rather than weakness enables team efficiency, learning, and prevents isolated failures.

Self
25%
Average
100%
Peer 1
100%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
100%

Appropriate Skepticism

Not accepting requirements, AI output, or conventional wisdom without thought prevents wasted effort, but paralysis is equally costly.

Self
75%
Average
75%
Peer 1
50%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
75%

Respect for Other Functions

You do not know everything, and valuing the expertise of product, design, research, and ops is the foundation of collaboration.

Self
75%
Average
75%
Peer 1
100%
Peer 2
75%
Peer 3
50%

Early Engagement

Showing up when input can still change direction prevents the frustration of discovering problems after decisions are frozen.

Self
50%
Average
75%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
50%
Peer 3
100%

Evidence-Seeking

Grounding decisions in data, research, and incidents rather than opinion or seniority produces better outcomes and earns trust.

Self
100%
Average
75%
Peer 1
75%
Peer 2
100%
Peer 3
50%

Growth Orientation

Actively seeking stretch and challenge rather than coasting after "good enough" is what separates careers that plateau from those that compound.

Self
75%
Average
92%
Peer 1
100%
Peer 2
75%
Peer 3
100%

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