My spouse joined MSFT 8 months ago and had first review couple of days ago. The manager said, there is nothing to worry— but being industrial hire and L61, we are expecting a bit more from you. You are putting a lot of hard work and delivering, but hard work is not always rewarding. He said he is confident of the progress in next 6 months now that rampup is completed.. if level was 60, then expectations were completely exceeded: for 61, do some smart work to meet / exceed expectations what should be made out of this review? My spuse went through manager change at the start of this year and was put on a project with absolutely no clarity and teammates also not having much knowledge. I hope this does not mean anything too bad and my spouse would be able to prove till the next review and beyond..
U discuss review discussions with spouses ? Anyone else who does it? I feel super weird talking in details about my review with my spouse.
He should listen to the feedback. He's doing okay but needs to keep improving. He probably will, if he uses good judgement and communicates. You should be there for him as a partner not a parent. If you try too hard to get him to improve, it might backfire and hurt your relationship.
That feedback is almost entirely unactionable. You should ask you spouse for more specific feedback on how his manager wants him to improve with specific examples, rather than overthink the possibilities
One specific feedback was: You ask a lot of questions which is good.. but you should learn to break down the problem.
I interpret this as “The questions you are asking are not very targeted, they don’t demonstrate that you’ve thought it through.”