EPAM
1,000+ people assessed across four talent programs on one shared, validated measurement layer.
My role: Designed the assessment architecture and mapped EPAM's competency matrix onto validated constructs.
The Challenge
EPAM's internal talent development ran four distinct programs (High Performance, Senior Leadership, High Performance for Women, and Juniors), each with its own decision criteria. The obvious answer is four separate assessments. That fragments the data, multiplies validation work, and makes comparison across programs impossible. The real problem was architectural: how to serve four different decisions from one coherent, validated measurement foundation.
The Approach
I designed one layered architecture serving all four programs: a shared psychometric layer feeding four program-specific decision layers. The key move was mapping EPAM's existing competency matrix onto validated psychometric constructs, so the matrix became the translation between EPAM's own language and standard measurement. Each program then read the shared layer through its own decision criteria. The work was delivered on Gyfted's assessment platform.
Results
- One validated measurement layer serving four talent development programs
- 1,000+ individuals assessed across the pilot programs
- EPAM's internal competency matrix mapped onto validated psychometric constructs
- Tools in production use across EPAM's Leadership Development, Talent Development and Talent Acquisition functions in EMEA and APAC
- Comparability across programs preserved by a shared measurement foundation
The competency matrix was the hinge. EPAM already had an internal language for talent, and mapping it onto validated constructs let the organization keep that language while the measurement underneath stayed defensible.
Delivered through Gyfted. The program structure is documented in Gyfted’s EPAM case study, and the broader argument for custom measurement over off-the-shelf surveys is in How to Measure Employee Engagement When Gallup’s Numbers Don’t Fit Your Org.