How do you usually write a mid-year or end-of-year performance review? Are there any templates, formats, or resources that can help?

Can you get an example from a teammate who's gone through performance review before? If not, here's a super generic template (this is baked into most HR tools like Workday):

1. The impact you landed this cycle
2. What you did well
3. What you could have done better

For each of the 3 sections, you would split things into bullet points for organization.

At bigger companies like FAANG, you'll have performance review axes that further sub-divide sections #2 and #3 from above. At Meta for example, these axes were:

1. Impact
2. Engineering Excellence
3. People
4. Direction

You can see what those axes mean with my mid-level to senior promotion course here: Grow From Mid-Level To Senior Engineer: L4 To L5