On 12/11/2013 02:13 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> At this point, I have to wonder - why am I filling this form out again?
>> What "goals" or "achievements" can I invent to put in these boxes? How
>> can I pretend these are related to the company mission?
>>
>
> Did you have any deadlines? Did you meet them?
>
> Did you resolve any big problem that was delaying a project?
>
> Did you find ways of making XYZ run faster? By how much?
>
> Was your code relevant to anything the company did? How so? Would the
> company have fared any worse without your code?

At my previous place, the answer to all of the above is pretty much "no".

At my current place... well, they pay me to write code all day long. If 
I hadn't written that code, somebody else would have written it, which 
means it would have taken the company slightly longer to get where it is 
now.

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