Singhal: Informal feedback reveals dramatically different signal than formal reviews
Nikhyl Singhal · Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) · Jun 11, 2023 · at 30:46
Nikhyl Singhal (VP of Product at Meta) explains to Lenny Rachitsky why formal review systems often fail to capture the ground truth of employee performance.
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“The more scale the company is, the more they have these systems in place, which provide formal feedback. But honestly, you know, we've run experiments where we said, let's ignore the formal feedback. Let's have a real conversation with, you know, my peers on how our teams are doing. The signal that comes out are dramatically different than the formal feedback.”
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