September 22, 2026
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Key takeaways:
- Your team’s achievements don’t automatically show your contribution. Be specific about the decisions you made that made those achievements happen.
- Engineering manager ratings are less consistent than individual contributor ratings. Different evaluators can reach different conclusions about the same manager.
- Impact beyond your team makes your contribution easier to see as it gives other leaders direct evidence of your work.
You have just spent two weeks on calibration. You wrote a packet for each of your engineers, gathered the evidence, and sat with your peer engineering managers discussing their performance.
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September 22, 2026