When do self evaluation need to be completed? Are they worth spending time on?
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@zk your bonus and salary increase are already done way before year end reviews. Ranking has already been completed.
Oct 15 - Due Date
If you want a salary increase and bonus you better do it
When is due date?
@OP since the percentage of promotions this year is hovering at less than 1% of all staff, I would say don’t waste a lot of time on it. Unless you’re feeling lucky!
You should have been receiving reminders from Workday for your self-evaluation completion, in parallel with soliciting performance feedback.
It’s a mandatory exercise, however regarding whether it’s “worth it”, that depends on how realistic you are.
Your year-end score has already been decided & submitted by your manager, regardless of how you score your own performance, and how much year end comments & supporting evidence you enter for your 2025 delivery into Workday.
Because the mid-year scoring communication was abolished as part of the mid-year discussion, this gives your manager complete freedom to score you in any way they like at year-end, which can come as a massive surprise to an employee. Although you will not be able to get your year end score changed, your best defence in the event of an unexpected low score & potential PIP is to ensure that all the achievements against your agreed goals are detailed in there.
In addition to the force ranking, managers were also mandated to artificially boost the percentage of 4 rated employees in their population, with the specific intention of getting an increased number employees out of the company as low performers, and therefore not having to provide a compensation package. Bear in mind that you may already be on that list.
Depending on the quality and dedication of your manager, they “may” fully review your scores & comments. Generally most will skim read your year end comments purely to extract material for their own year end comments on your performance. I’ve had managers who have literally cut & pasted entire paragraphs of my written review, and perhaps changed one or two words to make it look like they’ve properly performed a review. This is the norm, and not the exception.
Overall, it’s a mandatory but futile exercise. Your score has already been decided, regardless of the effort you put into this.
It's required. And it's read by other hiring managers, so yes it's worth spending time on. It's also good to list your accomplishments to defend against anything negative your manager might have to say. This is the one opportunity where you can personally put things into your company records.
You're correct. Citi's salaries are lower than the competitors it wants to beat or at least be on par with.
GS, JPMC and BofA can mandate RTO to 4 or 5 days per week because their salaries and bonuses are higher.
@cg+1k6kh68ck if citit didnt keep its hybrid model no one would want to work there
Make it a personal goal to do a self evaluation at some other company by this time next year.
the end of year decisions have already been made - rankings complete, this is just an exercise in futility and it will not alter the outcome of your forced ranking
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Spend all of next week taking as many AI classes as you can and join the AI pushers team in your department. Then stack your self evaluation with all those goodies to be sure they know you are 100% on the "Citi AI" bandwagon. This is the year where you either get AI smart, or get left behind.30