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How One CTO Replaced Performance Reviews With Continuous Feedback
Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a 200-person fintech company scrapped annual performance reviews in favor of continuous feedback loops. They break down the specific system the company adopted: weekly lightweight check-ins, a shared document for tracking growth areas, and a quarterly calibration meeting that replaced the dreaded stack ranking. The conversation digs into the metrics that improved — retention of senior engineers went up 18 percent, and time-to-feedback dropped from months to days. They also discuss the pitfalls: managers initially resisted the unstructured format, and the…
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