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> and the evaluation period was over more than two months ago

Excellent time to slack off a bit, make a few mistakes, then come next eval you can point to a marked improvement over the intervening six-to-nine months!

The line of logic this thread has followed so far suggests there will be a reason for a Google outage every month of the year.

Couldn‘t have phrased it any better.

I believe the term of art is “just so story.”

Then it might, indeed, be unrelated. Thanks for clarification!

Could it not be knock-on effects of earlier changes? Or indeed post-review changes from scared/precarious engineers?

I think we are exactly mid way between the end year 2021 perf and mid year 2022 perf, so its not clear to me that this could be to blame

That explains:

The people who did the stuff have either gotten their promotions and moved on or didn't get a promotion and have given up.

:-)