#performance-evaluation tag

High achievers more likely to bolt when top rankings are restricted | Cornell Chronicle

Performance evaluation systems that force-rank and cap top performers increase voluntary turnover among high-performing employees denied top ratings.

Artificial intelligence

fromTheregister

Facial recognition better in lab than street: researchers

Real-world performance of facial recognition technology often fails to match laboratory benchmark tests.

Chicago Bears

fromESPN.com

Bills called out by McDermott after blowout loss

Buffalo Bills lost 38-0 to Chicago Bears in preseason, raising concerns about performance.

Coach Sean McDermott highlighted the need for improvement from all team levels, emphasizing competition expectations.

Careers

fromBusiness Insider

I've interviewed around 500 people. I can trace all my best and worst hires back to this single interview question.

Eli Rubel uses a key interview question about energy sources to predict candidate performance.

Tech industry

fromBusiness Insider

TikTok's message to managers: Don't 'be nice' during performance reviews

TikTok prioritizes performance evaluation over being nice, enforcing strict rating systems despite potential internal conflicts.

US politics

fromESPN.com

Is it the coach or the program? Ranking CFB coaches while factoring in expectations

Top college football coaches succeed due to program wealth and support, influencing performance evaluation.

fromAbove the Law

AI Strategy Reality Check: Are You Prioritizing Platform Over Performance? - Above the Law

The flexibility of a vendor-agnostic approach allows for scalable AI solutions across platforms like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, prioritizing what works best in real-world workflows.

Artificial intelligence

fromMedium

Benchmarking in UX-an organizational framework

Benchmarking is a systematic process of comparing performance, products, processes, or financial metrics against internal benchmarks, competitive offerings, or broader industry standards.

Mobile UX

Business

fromFortune

The hidden career cost of having a powerful professional network

High-profile mentors may hinder long-term performance evaluations for their protégés despite initial advantages in career advancement.

Business

fromFortune

3 months ago

Inside Andy Jassy's latest salvo to strengthen, and in some corners of Amazon, resuscitate, the company DNA

Amazon managers will evaluate employees based on adherence to the company's 16 Leadership Principles. This formalizes cultural values in performance evaluations.

Roam Research

Cutting Blockchain Costs with Reputation Rollup | HackerNoon

ProSecutor significantly outperforms BlockEmulator in blockchain performance for mobile AIGC applications, ensuring higher throughput and efficiency.

Artificial intelligence

Related Work: Scaling Laws and Hopfield Models in LLM Research | HackerNoon

Larger models and more data lead to better performance in neural networks, reaffirming scaling laws.

How Prompt Complexity Affects GPT-3.5 Mutation Generation Accuracy | HackerNoon

The comparisons reveal that GPT-3.5 excels in bug detection with the highest rates on Defects4J and ConDefects, showcasing its powerful mutation generation capabilities.

Growth hacking

Online Community Development

Comparing Costs, Usability and Results Diversity of Mutation Testing Techniques | HackerNoon

The analysis reveals that while GPT-3.5 and CodeLlama-30bInstruct generate a higher number of mutations, traditional methods are significantly faster with lower costs.

Scala

We Designed a Study to See If AI Can Imitate Real Software Bugs | HackerNoon

The study assesses LLMs for generating software mutations, focusing on performance, behavior similarity, and prompt effects.

Data science

Scientists Just Found a Way to Skip AI Training Entirely. Here's How | HackerNoon

Many-shot ICL enhances multimodal foundation model performance across datasets, reducing latency and inference costs while allowing practical adaptation to new tasks.

Data science

4 months ago

How to Select the Right Features for Better Machine Learning Results | HackerNoon

Feature selection improves machine learning performance by reducing data dimensionality through systematic variable evaluation.

fromMedium

4 months ago

Design Career Ladder: Growth Through Clarity

The lack of clarity around roles and values had started to cause confusion and a noticeable decline in the quality of our work.

UX design

Python

fromAmazon Web Services

Amazon introduces SWE-PolyBench, a multilingual benchmark for AI Coding Agents | Amazon Web Services

SWE-PolyBench introduces a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating AI coding agents across complex codebases and multiple languages.

Remote teams

fromBusiness Insider

A software engineer's success often depends on their relationship with their manager, says ex-Amazon technical director

An engineer's success heavily relies on their relationship with their manager.

Artificial intelligence

fromTechRepublic

OpenAI's o3: AI Benchmark Discrepancy Reveals Gaps in Performance Claims

The performance of OpenAI's o3 model on benchmarks significantly differed from earlier claims, revealing the complexity and variability in AI evaluations.

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fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.

The Precise Language Of Good Management

As managers, we often fall short in communication due to nervousness, lack of experience, or a desire to please, leading to misleading assessments that can harm team members' growth.

Agile

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