If you are employed, this is for you ...
1) Don't overwork , your yearly appraisal will be same.
2) The more work you will do , the more work you will be assigned. So stop pleasing your seniors.
3) Don't overspeak in meetings , think twice before giving a new idea , it might be possible you will be only one who will work on that idea.
4) Your colleagues are not your family exceptions are there lol .
5) Never ever say in meetings that you have less work today.
6) Got new offer , just resign from your Job no need to discuss with manager , if they want to retain you they will else they will say you should not resign.
7) Avoid sharing personal things with office colleagues.
8) Do not resign without any offer in hand.
9) Finish the office work fast and try to learn something new everyday.
10) Don't spoil your weekend learn something new
11) Buy a chair which has neck support , cervical is very common with people who has sitting jobs.
12) Walk daily atleast 45 minutes.
13) Don't attach with your office colleagues , once company will change they will probably stop answering your calls.
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Before an appraisal chat, bring a 1-page doc. If you can’t explain your impact in 3 bullets, your manager can’t sell it in calibration.
Write impact as change + metric + scope: what moved, by how much, for who. Example: Cut p95 API latency from 420ms to 180ms by fixing N+1 queries and adding a cache; reduced DB CPU 35%; shipped to 6 services and lowered on-call pages from 5/week to 1/week.
Ask: What are the 2-3 things you’ll use to argue my rating? Where am I not meeting the next level? What work should I stop/start next quarter, and what evidence do you want to see?
Before appraisal, do a 20-min pre-brief with your lead. Show up with facts, not vibes.
Prepare:
1. 5 bullets of impact with numbers: p95 latency -40ms, oncall pages -30%, build time 18m->9m, infra cost -12%, incident MTTR 45m->18m
2. 2-3 hard problems you owned end-to-end (design + rollout + followups)
3. A short list of tradeoffs you made (why not perfect, why it was right then)
4. Peer/user signal: 2 links to PRs, runbooks, dashboards, postmortems, docs
Ask:
1. What level am I being evaluated against, specifically?
2. Where am I below bar? Give 2 examples.
3. What would make this a clear yes next cycle? Pick 1-2 projects.
4. Who else should I get feedback from?
Talk impact like this:
I changed X, measured by Y, so Z got better, and the risk/cost was A