L1 Engineer Evaluation Workbook

L1 Engineer — Promotion & Performance Evaluation Workbook

Scoring scale: 0–5 (decimals allowed)

Practice Summary

Guild	Management Practice	Criteria	Self Score (%)	Assessor Score (%)	Delta (%)
Executive Guild	Strategy Management	1	—	—	—
Executive Guild	Values Alignment	3	—	—	—
Executive Guild	Vision & Mission Alignment	1	—	—	—
Sales Guild	Stakeholder Engagement	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Business Analysis	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Consulting Management	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Forward Deployed Engineering	4	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Project Management	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	User Experience	2	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Agentic Engineering	4	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Application Architecture	2	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Data Engineering	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	DevOps Management	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Platform Architecture	4	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Security Engineering	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Software Engineering	4	—	—	—
Administration Guild	HR Management	3	—	—	—
Administration Guild	Knowledge Management	1	—	—	—

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Detailed Criteria

Executive Guild

Strategy Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-STM01	Knows Calab’s current strategic priorities and where their assigned work fits within them.	___	___

Values Alignment

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-VAL01	**Trust** — honours commitments, raises mistakes and blockers early, and handles client and company information with care.	___	___
L1-VAL02	**Impact** — focuses effort where it matters: confirms the purpose of assigned work and flags tasks that don’t serve it.	___	___
L1-VAL03	**Innovation** — looks for better ways to do their own tasks, suggesting and adopting improvements rather than defaulting to habit.	___	___

Vision & Mission Alignment

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-VMA01	Can explain Calab’s mission — affording humanity time to be inspired by transforming legacy operations with enterprise AI — and how their current work contributes to it.	___	___

Sales Guild

Stakeholder Engagement

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-SGM01	Communicates clearly and professionally with clients in meetings, chat, and written updates, matching Calab’s tone.	___	___
L1-SGM02	Represents work status honestly — flags risks, blockers, and delays early to their lead rather than surprising the client.	___	___
L1-SGM03	Builds trust in client interactions: prepares for meetings, follows through on commitments, escalates questions they can’t answer.	___	___

Delivery Guild

Business Analysis

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-BAM01	Reads and correctly interprets requirements and acceptance criteria before building, confirming ambiguities with the author.	___	___
L1-BAM02	Records what they built against the requirement so acceptance can be verified without re-discovery.	___	___
L1-BAM03	Raises requirement gaps or contradictions discovered during implementation instead of resolving them silently.	___	___

Consulting Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-CM01	Works effectively within a client engagement — understands its goals, their role in it, and delivers on their commitments.	___	___
L1-CM02	Adapts quickly to client ways of working — tools, ceremonies, standards — with minimal disruption.	___	___
L1-CM03	Maintains accurate, timely records the engagement depends on: time tracking, task status, handover notes.	___	___

Forward Deployed Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-FDE01	Learns the client’s business process they are supporting — who does what, with which systems, and why it matters — before building changes to it.	___	___
L1-FDE02	Implements assigned integration and configuration tasks in the client’s environment, composing existing platform capabilities before writing new code.	___	___
L1-FDE03	Verifies changes with the people who use them — demonstrates in the target environment, records acceptance evidence, iterates on feedback.	___	___
L1-FDE04	Raises gaps between the documented solution design and field reality to the responsible engineer rather than guessing or working around them.	___	___

Project Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-PM01	Keeps their task status current in the project’s tracking system so plans reflect reality.	___	___
L1-PM02	Estimates their assigned tasks honestly, tracks against the estimate, and raises variances early.	___	___
L1-PM03	Knows their dependencies in the project plan — what they’re waiting on and who is waiting on them.	___	___

User Experience

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-UXD01	Builds user-facing changes that follow the solution’s established design patterns and components, keeping the experience consistent.	___	___
L1-UXD02	Checks their changes from the user’s point of view before handover — realistic data, complete workflows, accessibility basics.	___	___

Technology Guild

Agentic Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-AIE01	Uses approved AI coding assistants and agents for day-to-day tasks, and reviews, tests, and understands all generated code before submitting it as their own work.	___	___
L1-AIE02	Provides effective prompts and context — specs, code, examples — to get useful output from AI tools, iterating when output misses.	___	___
L1-AIE03	Identifies common failure modes in AI output — hallucinated APIs, insecure patterns, licence-risk code — and corrects them before merge.	___	___
L1-AIE04	Follows Calab’s AI usage policies: approved tools only, no confidential or client data into unapproved systems.	___	___

Application Architecture

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-AAM01	Can explain Calab’s internal application landscape — which system is the source of truth for projects, services, documents, and finance — and keeps records where they belong.	___	___
L1-AAM02	Builds small automations and integrations between internal tools using approved patterns, documenting what they connect.	___	___

Data Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-DAT01	Writes and modifies queries and simple transformations correctly, verifying results against expected outputs before use.	___	___
L1-DAT02	Follows the solution’s data model and naming standards when adding or changing fields, tables, or schemas.	___	___
L1-DAT03	Works with client data only in approved environments and datasets; never copies production data to unapproved locations.	___	___

DevOps Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-DVO01	Uses the team’s CI/CD pipelines correctly — knows what stages run, reads failures, and fixes their own broken builds.	___	___
L1-DVO02	Deploys changes to non-production environments following the documented process, verifying success and rolling back under direction.	___	___
L1-DVO03	Investigates incidents on their assigned components using logs and monitoring under direction, documenting findings.	___	___

Platform Architecture

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-PAM01	Builds within the platform’s architectural standards — approved patterns, services, repositories — and asks when standards are unclear.	___	___
L1-PAM02	Can explain the high-level architecture of the solutions they work on: main components, data flow, and hosting.	___	___
L1-PAM03	Flags when a task appears to conflict with documented architecture or standards instead of silently working around it.	___	___
L1-PAM04	Provisions and changes cloud resources only through the approved infrastructure-as-code workflow — never manual changes to managed environments.	___	___

Security Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-SEC01	Handles secrets, credentials, and client data per policy — never commits secrets; uses approved vaults and identity.	___	___
L1-SEC02	Applies secure coding basics in their changes — input validation, parameterised queries, least-privilege defaults — and fixes security review findings.	___	___
L1-SEC03	Triages or escalates dependency and vulnerability alerts on their assigned repos within agreed timeframes.	___	___

Software Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-SEM01	Delivers assigned, well-scoped code changes that build, pass existing tests, and merge after review with only expected rework.	___	___
L1-SEM02	Writes or updates unit tests for the code they change, following the team’s established test patterns.	___	___
L1-SEM03	Uses the team’s standard toolchain correctly — version control, branching, code review workflow — with occasional guidance.	___	___
L1-SEM04	Documents their changes clearly: commit messages, PR descriptions, and comments that explain non-obvious decisions.	___	___

Administration Guild

HR Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-HRM01	Submits accurate timesheets by the deadline each cycle — time against the right engagement codes — correcting discrepancies when flagged.	___	___
L1-HRM02	Plans and requests leave ahead of time, checking impact on project commitments with their lead before booking.	___	___
L1-HRM03	Keeps their career workbook evidence current and completes mandatory training by its due date.	___	___

Knowledge Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L1-KNM01	Captures reusable learnings from their work in the handbook — fixes, gotchas, how-tos — following its authoring conventions.	___	___