Almost every experience with OKR’s has been an unmitigated dumpster fire.

Leadership sets some goal, usually something insane and physically unachievable. Some inane key result -usually no closer to reality- gets set. Management and PM’s spend inordinate amounts of time and effort faffing over the metrics and relentlessly asking “why hasn’t the number gone up by 2% today????????” No attempt is made at doing any actual work, or god forbid, actually contributing.

End of quarter comes and lots of numbers and reasons are thrown around. Leadership either celebrates nothing because “if you hit it, we weren’t trying hard enough” or berates you for not hitting the objective. Another, equally improbable goal is set for the next round. Beatings continue until morale improves.