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AI Prompt: Generate Performance Review Comments from Metrics

- 05.06.26 - ErcanOPAK

📝 Write Better Reviews, Faster

Performance reviews are hard to write. AI generates review comments from metrics, achievements, and feedback. Professional, balanced, specific.

📝 The Prompt

Write a performance review for an employee with the following data:

Role: [Software Engineer / Product Manager / Designer]
Tenure: [6 months / 2 years / etc.]

Key achievements:
- [Achievement 1]
- [Achievement 2]
- [Achievement 3]

Metrics:
- Code commits: [number]
- Bugs fixed: [number]
- Projects delivered: [number]
- On-time delivery: [percentage]

Peer feedback summary: [positive/negative feedback]

Areas for improvement:
- [Area 1]
- [Area 2]

Company values demonstrated:
- [Value 1]
- [Value 2]

Output format:
1. Overall summary paragraph
2. Strengths (3-5 bullet points)
3. Areas for growth (2-3 bullet points)
4. Specific examples for each strength/growth area
5. Actionable next steps for next quarter
6. Overall rating justification

Tone: Professional, constructive, specific (not generic), balanced

✅ Example Output

# Performance Review: Sarah Chen, Senior Engineer

## Overall Summary
Sarah has exceeded expectations this quarter, delivering critical features for the payments platform ahead of schedule. Her technical leadership during the database migration prevented potential downtime.

## Strengths
- **Technical Excellence**: Refactored legacy payment service, reducing latency by 40%
- **Mentorship**: Onboarded 2 junior engineers who are now productive independently
- **Proactive**: Identified security vulnerability before it reached production
- **Collaboration**: Worked with product team to scope realistic timelines

## Areas for Growth
- **Documentation**: Can improve knowledge sharing through more detailed PR descriptions
- **Delegation**: Takes on too much personally; trust team members more

## Specific Examples
- *Strengths*: Database migration completed 2 weeks early, zero incidents
- *Growth*: PR #1234 had minimal description; team took extra time to understand changes

## Next Steps (Next 90 Days)
- Lead knowledge-sharing session on payment architecture
- Implement automated testing strategy for critical paths
- Mentor one more junior engineer

## Rating
Exceeds Expectations - Consistent high-quality delivery with measurable business impact

💡 Pro Tips

  • Include specific dates and metrics for credibility
  • Use STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) examples
  • Ask AI to highlight most important achievement first
  • Request peer quotes integration for 360 feedback

“Spent 2 hours writing each review. AI drafts in 2 minutes. I edit and personalize. Quality improved, time reduced. Performance reviews no longer dreaded.”

— Engineering Manager

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