Performance reviews are meaningless - Anonymous employee Unity Employee Review

1.0
May 11, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cool office. Presence in gaming industry. Lunch and snacks. Game room.

Cons

Zero career growth. Zero promotion or merit based raises. Zero feedback cycle from your manager. Performance reviews are meaningless because it's nothing more than just a glorified 1:1. Your manager either forget or miscommunicate what you say during performance review. You get nothing out of these 3Qs. I think this structure is there just as a way to deny you raises.

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Unity Response
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Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like your manager is not skilled at handling performance, career or comp conversations or something is not clicking--sorry about that! Because there are lots of employees who get useful feedback from their managers (during 3Q or just normal days), get merit increases (some more than once a year) and even stock grant refreshers. It's a bummer you are having this experience and encourage you to talk with your manager, next level manager or someone in HR. Also you can reach out to me directly as well. Elizabeth Brown Head of HR

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