Performance reviews, company by company

Every page here describes how evaluation actually works at that company: the shape of the cycle, what evidence carries weight, and what to have written down before the form opens. Where a specific review month is not published by the company itself, we say so rather than guessing.

50 companies

Accenture

Accenture runs on a fiscal year ending in August and assesses consultants on chargeability, client outcomes and progression against a defined career level. Confirm dates locally.

Adobe

Adobe moved away from a conventional annual ranking years ago in favor of ongoing manager check-ins, so the record that matters is continuous rather than annual. Confirm your own cadence with your manager.

Airbnb

Airbnb is a two-sided marketplace where guest and host outcomes must be argued separately, and where trust and safety carry unusual weight. Confirm cycle dates with your manager.

Amazon

Amazon evaluates against its published Leadership Principles, in writing, with peer feedback assembled into a document rather than a conversation. The principles are the vocabulary, so your record should already be written in it.

Apple

Apple runs a functional organization with unusually tight information boundaries, so evaluation is manager-led and your visible record is mostly what your own chain observed. Prepare accordingly.

Atlassian

Atlassian evaluates on a values-plus-impact split, so how you worked with other teams counts alongside what you delivered. Cycle dates vary by org, and the preparation that always pays is a record of collaboration with named beneficiaries.

Booking.com

Booking.com runs an experimentation-heavy travel marketplace across many languages and regulatory regimes from a Netherlands base. Confirm your local cycle dates with your manager.

Cisco

Cisco sells largely through partners into long-lived enterprise and carrier networks, so evaluation weighs certification-grade reliability and channel enablement. Dates vary by org and fiscal calendar.

CVS Health

CVS Health combines retail pharmacy, pharmacy benefits and insurance, so store, clinical and corporate roles have almost nothing in common at review time. Confirm your own cycle.

Datadog

Datadog is an infrastructure company where on-call quality and scale work are first-class evidence, not background noise. Cycle dates vary, so keep an incident-and-scale record that shows what your systems did under load.

Deloitte

Deloitte is a partnership where chargeable hours, client feedback and progression toward partner are the assessment currency. Cycle dates vary by member firm and service line.

DoorDash

DoorDash balances three sides at once, consumers, merchants and couriers, under tight delivery-time constraints. Confirm cycle dates, and record results per side rather than in aggregate.

Elastic

Elastic is distributed-first with an open-source heritage and a search, observability and security product split. Cycle dates vary, so keep a written record that works asynchronously.

EY

EY assesses on a June fiscal year across audit, tax, consulting and strategy, with counselor-led development conversations. Confirm your local cycle dates and grade expectations.

GitLab

GitLab runs a documented, handbook-first assessment process where written evidence outweighs hallway reputation. Exact cycle dates vary by year and org, so the reliable move is to keep a running record your manager can read without you in the room.

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs runs a calendar-year cycle where the annual bonus decision is the real event and 360 feedback feeds it. Confirm your division's dates and the compensation timeline.

Google

Google assesses against explicit level expectations, with peer input and a calibration process that compares you to the level rather than to your team. Dates move, so the durable preparation is scope evidence mapped to the ladder.

HubSpot

HubSpot publishes its culture code and runs a mid-market go-to-market motion where customer retention is everyone's concern. Cycle dates vary, so keep a record framed around customer outcomes.

IBM

IBM blends a long-tenure engineering culture with a large consulting arm, so what counts as evidence differs sharply depending on which side you sit. Cycle dates vary, so build your record around your own track.

Intel

Intel is a manufacturing company as much as a design company, so evaluation weighs process, yield and validation alongside architecture. Cycle dates vary, so record the risk you removed as well as the parts that shipped.

Intuit

Intuit runs on tax and fiscal seasonality with immovable statutory deadlines, so delivery before a filing season is the dominant rhythm. Confirm your cycle dates, and anchor your record to the season.

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase spans consumer banking, commercial banking and markets, so evidence differs sharply by line of business. Cycle dates vary, and the compensation timeline is the one that matters.

KPMG

KPMG runs a September fiscal year end and a member-firm structure, so cycle mechanics differ by country. Assessment weighs quality, client outcomes and progression against grade.

McKinsey

McKinsey runs frequent engagement-end reviews on top of a semiannual formal cycle, with an up-or-out progression model. Confirm your own dates with your development leader.

Meta

Meta runs a peer-heavy assessment where measured impact is the currency and both direct and indirect contribution count. Dates vary, so keep a record with numbers attached and the peers who can corroborate them.

Microsoft

Microsoft evaluates impact on a three-part model that counts what you built, what you contributed to others, and what you built on others' work. Cycle dates vary by org, so keep a record organized around those three buckets.

MongoDB

MongoDB runs a developer-led adoption model on top of an open-source core, so community credibility and self-serve conversion both count. Confirm cycle dates with your manager.

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley balances a large wealth management business against institutional securities, and the two are assessed on quite different evidence. Confirm your division's cycle and compensation dates.

Netflix

Netflix publishes its culture document and has long favored continuous 360 feedback over conventional ratings cycles. The preparation that matters is a running record of judgment calls, not a form filled in once a year.

Nike

Nike runs a fiscal year ending in May and organizes work around long product creation calendars set seasons ahead. Confirm your cycle dates and anchor your record to the seasonal calendar.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA runs on long hardware cycles paired with a fast-moving software and ecosystem layer, so evaluation spans multi-year silicon commitments and quarterly library releases. Record both timescales.

Oracle

Oracle runs on a fiscal year ending in May, and its evaluation rhythm follows that rather than the calendar. Cycle dates vary by org, so anchor your record to fiscal-year goals and the customers behind them.

PayPal

PayPal operates two-sided payment infrastructure across many jurisdictions, so evaluation weighs trust, regulatory correctness and checkout conversion together. Confirm your cycle dates locally.

PwC

PwC runs a June fiscal year end and splits sharply between audit, tax and advisory, each with its own seasonal peak. Confirm your own cycle dates and busy season with your team.

Salesforce

Salesforce runs on a fiscal year that ends in January, and its planning vocabulary is built around a published goal-setting method. Cycle dates vary by org, so tie your record to the goals you signed up for and the numbers attached to them.

SAP

SAP is a European enterprise software company where employee representation and local labor practice genuinely shape process, and where cloud migration is the dominant strategic theme. Confirm your local cycle dates.

ServiceNow

ServiceNow sells a workflow platform that customers extend heavily themselves, so platform stability and upgrade safety carry more weight than feature volume. Confirm cycle dates with your manager.

Shopify

Shopify's year is shaped by merchant seasonality, and Black Friday Cyber Monday is the load-bearing event most teams are measured against. Formal cycle dates move, so anchor your record to the peaks the business actually runs on.

Snowflake

Snowflake bills by consumption, so query efficiency and customer cost are the same conversation and both sit on the evaluation axis. Confirm your cycle dates with your manager.

Square

Square serves small merchants who lose money the moment payments stop, so reliability at the point of sale outranks nearly everything. Cycle dates vary, so record uptime and merchant outcomes.

Starbucks

Starbucks runs a fiscal year ending in late September or early October, and store partners, supply chain and corporate roles are assessed on separate evidence. Confirm your own cycle.

Stripe

Stripe evaluates against a high, explicitly stated bar, and written argument is the currency. Cycle dates shift by org and year, so the durable preparation is a decision-by-decision record of what you owned and what it moved.

Target

Target runs a January fiscal year end with a strong own-brand and store-experience focus, and separate store, supply chain and corporate tracks. Confirm your own cycle dates.

Twilio

Twilio sells developer-facing communication infrastructure billed per message and per minute, so reliability, deliverability and unit economics are the evaluation axes. Confirm cycle dates with your manager.

Uber

Uber runs real-time marketplaces in hundreds of cities with local regulation and local economics, so results are city-shaped rather than global. Confirm cycle dates with your manager.

UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth spans insurance and care delivery, so clinical, actuarial, operations and technology roles are assessed on very different evidence under heavy regulation. Confirm your own cycle.

VMware

VMware now operates inside Broadcom, and its evaluation practice reflects that ownership with a tighter focus on the largest enterprise accounts and on the core virtualization portfolio. Confirm current cycle dates locally.

Walmart

Walmart runs a fiscal year ending in January and splits between store, supply chain and corporate tracks that are assessed on entirely different evidence. Confirm your own cycle.

Workday

Workday builds the HR and finance systems other companies run their own reviews and payroll inside, so correctness and customer trust dominate. Confirm your own cycle dates with your manager.

Zendesk

Zendesk builds the tooling other companies run their support on, so its own uptime and workflow quality are directly the product. Record what you did for agent efficiency and platform reliability.