I was working really hard and had burnouts working on several weekends in the past year.

Anonymous

March 4,2024 at 3:31AM UTC

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I was working really hard and had burnouts working on several weekends in the past year. This also repeated on my birthday and my wife's birthday.

There are 3 levels of performance ratings in my organization:Top achiever, valued contributor (about 75% of employees get this rating)and Expect more ratings.

Even though most of my tasks had good success, Still I did not get Top Achiever rating. They explained 2-3 Instances which has prevented me from getting Top achiever rating mainly due to some bugs in my code and they were not satisfied on some of my decisions for solving a few issues.

Verbally, he told me that i stand close to the top achiever rating but he couldn't give due to the above reasons. How should I respond to my boss.

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AnonymousMarch 4,2024 at 3:54AM UTC
Acknowledge what was said and use as a mission for success
AnonymousMarch 4,2024 at 6:06PM UTC
I would suggest posting the 2-3 instances on the wall as motivation. Also, try to avoid making those errors again if possible. Perhaps do a code search on those instances if you think you may have repeated them. Review the decision making process your boss was discussing and see if it makes sense to change. Sometimes the boss comes up with a different way that may not be better. Make sure you have good information about why you way is better (if so) and discuss with boss for clarification.