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barbazoo on July 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The office is a theatre for work (2019)

Smaller shops too, not just startups. I've been in places with ~300 employees that don't have all that ceremony around performance and self set goals.

dilyevsky on July 18, 2023 [–]

And ive worked at places with fewer than 50 devs that had implemented the okr nonsense with predictable result so it’s not universal.

The truth is that unless you run the place you really have no control over some bigco management getting hired and trying to parrot all this stuff

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