A structured system for skill grading and technical reviews.
Define clear expectations for each level, run consistent reviews, and keep decisions transparent over time. Built for small to mid-sized teams that need repeatable assessment without spreadsheets.
Replace ad-hoc grading with a shared skill model and a consistent review process that reviewers and employees can follow.
Keep skill expectations, review outcomes, and history in one place, with role-based access and a clear trail of changes.
Problem statement
Technical grading often becomes inconsistent because expectations are informal, reviewers interpret levels differently, and past decisions are hard to reference. Over time, teams lose a shared definition of what “senior” or “meets expectations” means in practice.
Spreadsheets and ad-hoc documents add friction and ambiguity. They are difficult to maintain, easy to diverge across teams, and rarely capture the reasoning behind a score.
Reviewers struggle with unclear criteria, repeated explanations, and no reliable baseline to compare across people or cycles. Employees struggle with low transparency, shifting standards, and limited continuity between reviews.
Solution overview
Reviewy centralizes your skill model and connects it directly to the review process. Skills and expectations are defined once and reused across reviews, so assessments follow the same structure each time.
Reviews become repeatable and easier to run. Each review is grounded in explicit criteria, with clear outcomes and feedback that can be revisited later.
Role-based access keeps responsibilities clear: who can define the model, who can review, and what each employee can see and propose.
Core features
- Define skill areas and levels with explicit expectations for each tier.
- Standardize what “good” looks like across reviewers and review cycles.
- Update the model over time while keeping historical reviews intact.
- Keep scope clear for different tracks or focus areas without rewriting criteria.
- Run structured reviews with consistent outcomes across the organization.
- Capture reviewer feedback in a way employees can understand and act on.
- Support proposals and adjustments when an employee disagrees or needs clarification.
- Record final decisions with context, not just scores.
- Separate responsibilities between Owners, Configurators, Reviewers, and Employees.
- Limit who can change the skill model versus who can assess people.
- Ensure reviewers only access the reviews they are responsible for.
- Keep sensitive membership and role changes controlled and traceable.
- Track review history per person with stable references over time.
- Compare progress across review cycles using the same expectations.
- Preserve past decisions even as the skill model evolves.
- Provide continuity for onboarding, role changes, and manager transitions.
How it works
- Define your skill model and expectations for each level.
- Select who maintains the model and who participates as reviewers.
- Assign reviewers to review sessions for specific people.
- Run the review using the shared criteria and record feedback.
- Collect proposals or clarifications when needed and confirm final outcomes.
- Use the stored history to track progress and keep future reviews consistent.
Designed for teams
Reviewy is built for team-wide consistency, not personal note-taking. A shared skill model reduces drift between reviewers and helps new reviewers align quickly. Support for multiple reviewers makes it practical for peer review, cross-team calibration, and situations where responsibility is shared.
Because reviews are structured and stored with context, teams can reference prior outcomes, keep expectations stable, and reduce repeated debates about definitions.
Built for growth
The same approach works beyond QA. Any role with measurable skills and tiered expectations can use the same structure without changing how reviews are run.
Skill models can evolve as the team grows, while reviews remain stable records of what was assessed at the time. Over the long term, the value is continuity: consistent expectations, consistent reviews, and a history that supports fair decisions.
Closing
Reviewy is an internal tool for running fair, transparent, and repeatable technical assessments. It helps teams align on expectations, reduce ambiguity in reviews, and keep decisions consistent over time.