Cornerstone Performance Reviews & Product Details

I like the goal-tracking feature that allows employees and managers to review progress throughout the year instead of waiting for annual appraisals. The system also makes it easy to record achievements, share feedback, and maintain performance history in one place. This helps make performance discussions more objective and transparent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface could be more intuitive for occasional users. Some appraisal workflows involve multiple screens and approvals, which can make the process longer than necessary. Faster report generation and a more mobile-friendly experience would also improve usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Based on user reviews and features, the best aspects of Cornerstone Performance are its comprehensive, unified platform for managing employee goals, continuous feedback, and development in one place. Users appreciate its high customizability to match specific company workflows and the ability to enhance employee engagement through transparent, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Commonly reported dislikes about Cornerstone Performance include its high administrative complexity, steep learning curve, and rigid, often confusing user interface. Users frequently cite frustrating, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very feature rich and seems capable of handling complex processes. If you're considering implementing this then I highly recommend you have a dedicated admin who can focus purely on maintaining the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I genuinely don't understand how this has such good reviews. The system is incredibly complex and difficult to navigate as an admin. It's simple from an end-user standpoint, but any admin change seems hard to implement and figure out without extensive training.

The UI is incredibly outdated and awkward to use. The system design seems stuck in the early 2010s and seems mismatched - some areas appear more modern like the screenshots on this site, but others are really basic and old - I've even found standard templates for custom pages on the system that haven't been updated since 2017. Creating a custom page that looks somewhat modern requires some HMTL knowledge, otherwise you need to use the UI page builder which is a nightmare. There's no way to resize the editing window, so you're stuck trying to create and edit a web page using a tiny screen. Previewing the page doesn't seem to work all the time and is just generally awkward to use.

Some basic reports/dashboards are not included as part of the system, so you need to create them yourself from scratch. Even something as basic as seeing how many people have added a goal vs how many haven't was not included when we launched the system. We were simply directed to a community page containing "recommended reports" and were expected to build custom dashboards ourselves for basic reporting requirements. If you have a list of recommended reports then why are they not simply included as templates?

Overall, the system is incredibly powerful but needlessly complicated to implement and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy for managers and HR to track the progress of their employees ensuring training and performance are tracked all in one place. It is easy to assign and define how to track everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does take a little bit to learn and setup on the admin side of things. Once you get it down though and learn the lingo for creation and set up you are good to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would 1st start with the amazing customer support which they offer , Customized dashboards , amazing features and what not Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In our case the integration process took little more time , which I think needs to be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoy being able to use HTML to further customize instructions. It's very helpful to be able to include different due dates on different steps. I appreciate the ability to set visibility and when stuff becomes visible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything has to be done on an individual level. If you want calibration to be controlled by a small group, it's really difficult for large companies because if you have a lot of changes, you can't make them in mass. You can only make changes in a report if it's only the overall rating rather than smaller ratings inside sections. Right now we have one person making hundreds of changes. Being able to branch in a performance review would be super helpful so you can give certain folks certain questions. Reminder emails for feedback would be so helpful. A draft button for performance reviews would be so helpful when setting up performance review, so you can slowly make a review in multiple sessions rather than one sitting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can create any task you need with different sections and assign it to different roles. Also the goals management is very complete with the possibility to see them inside performance tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you launch a task you cannot remove it, only hide it. This is not a big problem but in some cases it can be a little confusing when you have lots of performance tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps me connect my team data and performance in one place, it has a wide range of features and is very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cornerstone Performance has by now matched our overall expectation, so no dislike by now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has more customer centric and user friendly. It will give more insights to the business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Product can be explored in different dimensions which will help give clear charter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the possibility to drive goals by targets and threshold. I also like performance reviews: easy to build with all workflow required and Sign off. That's a fantastic tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Potentially a lack of customised workflow for Goals feature Potentially a lack of delegation rights in the system for the Goal feature A lack of automation with Compensation depends on Goals we created Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.