Why import historical reviews?
Importing past performance reviews into the platform helps you create a complete performance history for each employee. This allows managers and HR teams to:
Track employee growth and performance trends over time
Ensure past feedback is available during future review cycles
Maintain a single source of truth for performance data
Provide managers with richer context when evaluating team members
By uploading historical reviews, you ensure that past evaluations remain accessible and actionable inside the system.
Preparing Your Import File
To import historical reviews, prepare a spreadsheet with two tabs.
Tab 1: Review Responses
The first tab should contain:
The employee’s email address
All the questions that were asked to the employee in the review
The corresponding responses
Each row should represent a review entry for a specific employee.
This tab allows the system to understand what questions were asked and what answers were provided during the historical review.
Tab 2: Review Relationships
The second tab should include:
The employee’s email address
The manager’s email address
All the questions that were asked to the manager in the review
The corresponding responses
This information allows the system to correctly associate the review with both the employee being reviewed and the manager who conducted the review.
The importer currently supports manager reviews only. Tab 2 maps exclusively to manager reviews, so additional tabs (for example, separate tabs for peer or upward reviews) aren't recognized and cause the import to fail — and any extra reviewers listed in Review Relationships are saved as manager reviews rather than being recognized as peer or upward reviewers.
Importing the File
Once your spreadsheet is ready:
Navigate to the Performance Review app.
Click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner.
Select Import from file.
Drag and upload your performance review spreadsheet.
Choose the review cycle name.
Set the cycle start and end dates.
After completing these steps, the system will process the file and import the historical reviews into the selected cycle.
To avoid employees seeing manager responses that they weren't supposed to see, all manager forms will remain unpublished. Each manager has the ability to publish it if they want the employee to see the responses. This applies regardless of the viewer's permission level — an unpublished review stays hidden from the reviewed employee even for a Super Admin looking at their own review.