Progression Reviews & Product Details

I loved that I could build a career ladder by leveraging like organizations that had public profiles. I also loved that my teams could track their wins against those ladders and have it all visible for managers and ICs during performance reviews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A minor annoyance was that some of the out of the box frameworks and skills had localiziation to en-gb vs en-us. This meant I needed to go edit all of those skills before adding to my career ladders (en-us). There were small bugs here and there, but the Progression team was really quick to address and fix them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Building a career progression framework is an incredibly important project, but it's an enormous overhaul - Progression makes it feel like a fraction of the work if you were trying to do this from scratch. The AI tool they have is super helpful and easy to use once you get the hang of it. They've got an incredibly fair pricing point and extremely helpful customer service. They saved us months of work. Highly recommend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When the AI tool errors out, it doesn't save what you've inputted. However, we've shared this feedback and I know they are working continually to improve the AI experience and this doesn't happen often enough to deter me using the product. The pros outweigh this one growing point 10-fold. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that Progression captures your current state career framework. There are so many tools to help import or even create your framework. Once you have it captured, you can then start to iterate and improve it. Each check-in cycle is a beautiful opportunity to iterate and become more accurate. Conversations around career paths are critical, and Progression facilitates them around check-ins and even during the in-between as people use the other features. Make your career framework visible and see people start to value the behaviors you value. Then make it better! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The AI generation needs a few cycles before you can get quality content from it. While I look forward to future improvements, my recommendation is to stick to the pre-written or shared frameworks and skills from other companies and Progression as your starting point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TLDR: Progression provides invaluable tools for empowering individual team members to take ownership of their career growth, enabling managers to be effective leaders in stewarding professional development, and mitigating bias and subjectivity to support a fair and equitable evaluation process (which informs decisions for performance reviews, promotions, and role changes).

- Best-in-class, responsive customer success team and ongoing support

- Intuitive and easy-to-navigate UX/UI, including pre-built skill libraries and frameworks that make it relatively quick and easy to get started

- Reduces friction in delivering constructive feedback by making it easy to connect to concrete skills needed to succeed

- Facilitates shared understanding and collaborative goal-setting for "leveling up" or pursuing "track changes" for individuals

- Provides a single source of truth for what's expected for every role and level across the company

- Enhances team engagement via feedback and wins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't say there is much that we actually dislike about Progression.

We started out very small when we started using it (<20 team members) and have since grown and been acquired to 250 headcount, and the functionality has scaled very well with our needs.

We see room for them to expand the product to support our more developed performance evaluation processes (which currently live in a separate platform where we're moderately satisfied), and we also see those components in their product roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Progression excels as an employee evaluation tool, enabling seamless skill tracking and personalized development plans. Its user-friendly interface simplifies feedback and empowers skill growth. The app's insights aid in talent allocation and training decisions, fostering engagement through transparent skill mapping. Overall, Progression offers a valuable platform for effective employee development and progress monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Progression does have some downsides to consider. Its complexity might lead to a learning curve for both employees and administrators. Customization options could be limited, potentially not aligning perfectly with unique evaluation processes. Additionally, its reliance on technology raises concerns about data privacy and security. Regular updates and support may also impact user experience and stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a design leader part ir my job is to keep track of many career management aspects.

From the career framework, to our skills portfolio, the level and career progression of each designer and their achievements, progression covers everything and helps me manage career at scale! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's still a young product and company, so expect to have a few features that feel like MVPs.

But my main dislike is how they try to quantify the career progression, by overly simplifying if a designer is performing or not. Often progression will say someone is x% above their level, triggering some unwanted tricky discussions with direct reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Progression makes it super-easy to collect, review, and track feedback when it comes to performance review time. This can sometimes be a stressful and time-consuming process, but with Progression, all your wins, peer reviews, and manager assessments are stored in one place, which makes follow-up conversations about performance more transparent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. The interface is intuitive and easy to use, so you can dive in and start using the features pretty much straight away without any extensive training or tricky learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's really good from an employees perspective as it helps structure performance reviews really easily and it allows for clear comparisons of colleagues.

The review process as a manager is also easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The set up of roles is complicated and time consuming. It ends up being confusing working out which screen is the right one to set up the role.

It's made longer by the fact you can't copy over details from other roles or levels so you have to manually copy and paste then edit. Fortunately you only need to do this when initially setting up a team/role, but it could have been much quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Progression increases accountability throughout the organization by encouraging leaders to define structure and expectations to each role clearly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Formatting within text fields - some basic markdown would be a welcome addition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You could easily identify what you need to improve to grow, discuss them with your manager, and take action to gain better knowledge. It is easy to use, in most cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it is difficult to find categories such as actions, or the pop-ups do not close properly. When reviewing it with the manager, it is not clear if we match in the answer or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.