Hi.
Welcome back to eat your crust podcast.
I'm Crystal.
And I'm Jisoo.
Today we wanted to talk about careers because we haven't touched on that in a little bit.
And also, it's just past the time of, like, performance reviews, at least on our calendars.
When I had my performance review this year, it was in, like, February, and now it's like the debriefing time of seeing and discussing those performance reviews and thinking about next steps.
So we thought it might be appropriate to talk about that and our experiences in dealing with performance reviews and just reviews in general in our professional lives.
Yeah.
And I think especially with Crystal and I being a little bit earlier in our careers, we can't say that our experience with performance reviews are going to be the same as everyone else's.
But I do think it's kind of interesting to see how other people navigate through this craziness of performance reviews and feedback.
And also what I think is interesting is a lot of the times, the way you kind of go through these steps depends heavily on your manager as well.
And you tend to learn and soak up so much from your manager.
So I would love to hear, Crystal, if you have any tips or, I guess, attitudes or approaches towards performance reviews that you've picked up from your manager.
Sure.
So I was a contractor for the past two years, so I actually never really had to deal with performance reviews until recently.
But I really do like the approach that me and my current manager take with it.
It's basically like being super transparent, and nothing on your performance review should be a surprise.
We just encourage a lot of communication between each other, whether that's conveying what projects I'm working on, what has been difficult, what has not been difficult.
I think it's also totally okay to tell your manager, like, oh, I'm struggling with this aspect of my job or something like that.