Yeah this is something I learned really quickly doing consulting. A survey would go out and basically we needed all 5's because if the average score dropped below a 4.75 we'd not get our bonus and/or a promotion. So when your only on a handful of projects in a year and a fraction of those projects return the survey well a 4 can torpedo everything.
I'm glad I'm out of that now, but whenever I see any kind of survey like that I give the highest rating possible by default unless there's something really off (and even then usually still 5's because the issues aren't the individuals fault)
Yeah this is something I learned really quickly doing consulting. A survey would go out and basically we needed all 5's because if the average score dropped below a 4.75 we'd not get our bonus and/or a promotion. So when your only on a handful of projects in a year and a fraction of those projects return the survey well a 4 can torpedo everything.
I'm glad I'm out of that now, but whenever I see any kind of survey like that I give the highest rating possible by default unless there's something really off (and even then usually still 5's because the issues aren't the individuals fault)