Ask HN: Have OKRs worked for your company?

I worked at a startup that had a hard time staying focused and OKRs were another distraction. We had one ‘goal’, to find product-market fit, and having everybody pick 20 personal OKRs had nothing to do with that.

It strikes me as another way to make sure dark triad people get promoted and other people get crushed because being evaluated on lots of twisty little goals gives the self-promoter many ways to look good and make honest people look bad.

Okr's are the current trend for doing what we've always done, trying to predict the future. We use them only because they are fashionable.

We structure flexibility into annual objectives so we can be flexible during the year in creating key results tailored to changing conditions.

My team uses OKRs in a very lightweight fashion, just to make sure our daily tasks are aligned with long term objectives. We

I like ending our semester and being able to break down how much time we spent doing what, from a macro perspective.

But I've seen many teams struggling adopting OKRs, it's really hard to define reasonable long term goals for certain professions. Also, the more metric centric are your OKRs, the more issues you will have.

Total waste of time. Just another ceremony coming from non-tech personnel.

How do define OKR and Can you tell more about context?

I just didn’t do them and never heard about it again.