All the companies are using the same playbook. Depending on the country you are employed in (I'd imagine), the employer will have to be more careful about it though - if the facts don't line up (which they probably won't in many cases) they are opening themselves to wrongful dismissal lawsuits. I would say it's safe to assume many performance reviews have been falsified compared to prior feedback employees have received.
Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
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Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#12This is great news, it helps establish performance reviews are a legitimate business tool and are not abused to achieve predetermined results. I’m sure that when managers have to make tough future decisions without enough evidence, I’ll be able to trust their judgment as much then as I can now. Odd though how burnout is skyrocketing. Weird coincidence, I’m sure.
I am sure all they have to do is follow the performance improvement plan and then everything will be alright /s
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#13> Managers gave about 10% of the company’s workers poor reviews The article didn't manage to get a quote on what the guidance/orders for the reviews was. For example, were managers given a target on how many of their reports were to receive poor reviews? Or did the evaluation criteria change besides the target distribution?
Maybe they are grading on a bell curve like they did in my youth?
10% get excellent reviews, 10% get poor reviews and everyone else falls somewhere in the middle.
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#14> deploying AI tools to help our engineers be more productive Interested in how that turns out. I seriously doubt that it will make the work environment any more pleasant. That said, the salaries at Meta are pretty crazy. I guess folks are willing to put up with a lot to make that kind of dosh. Of course, if, as has been speculated, this is a full-court press by all the top tech companies to push down salaries, then…
If you'd earn less going somewhere else, then there's no reason to jump ship till you have to: keep banking the money till the situation becomes untenable.
As if only money counts. There is also somrthing like the fun part of work. Maybe i am spoiled by living in a country where money is not really an issue.
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#15All the companies are using the same playbook. Depending on the country you are employed in (I'd imagine), the employer will have to be more careful about it though - if the facts don't line up (which they probably won't in many cases) they are opening themselves to wrongful dismissal lawsuits. I would say it's safe to assume many performance reviews have been falsified compared to prior feedback employees have recei…
You don't have to lie about it. If you want to give more bad reviews of employees, you can genuinely raise expectations so they won't be met instead of lying about missing expectations that were met. Especially if the new expectations are low enough that some employees meet them.
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#16> deploying AI tools to help our engineers be more productive Interested in how that turns out. I seriously doubt that it will make the work environment any more pleasant. That said, the salaries at Meta are pretty crazy. I guess folks are willing to put up with a lot to make that kind of dosh. Of course, if, as has been speculated, this is a full-court press by all the top tech companies to push down salaries, then…
There’s no evidence that “all the top tech companies” are trying to push down salaries. I’ve neither seen nor heard any evidence of this at Netflix or Apple. Google?
Salary ranges for open positions in California are public.
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#17A lot of people cruise, even in my scale-up, there's a mentality sometimes of 'I'll get to it later' or 'meh bug, I'll fix it next week', hustle is hard to maintain.
I have no doubt that there are thousands of people at Meta doing jack-all and FB won't feel the loss - if at all - and probably gain a lot of operational efficiency not having to manage the dead weight.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you'd earn less going somewhere else, then there's no reason to jump ship till you have to: keep banking the money till the situation becomes untenable.
As if only money counts. There is also somrthing like the fun part of work. Maybe i am spoiled by living in a country where money is not really an issue.
Where is this magical country where money is not really an issue?
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#19> deploying AI tools to help our engineers be more productive Interested in how that turns out. I seriously doubt that it will make the work environment any more pleasant. That said, the salaries at Meta are pretty crazy. I guess folks are willing to put up with a lot to make that kind of dosh. Of course, if, as has been speculated, this is a full-court press by all the top tech companies to push down salaries, then…
There’s no evidence that “all the top tech companies” are trying to push down salaries. I’ve neither seen nor heard any evidence of this at Netflix or Apple. Google? Salary ranges for open positions in California are public.
Welp, they've done it before ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you'd earn less going somewhere else, then there's no reason to jump ship till you have to: keep banking the money till the situation becomes untenable.
As if only money counts. There is also somrthing like the fun part of work. Maybe i am spoiled by living in a country where money is not really an issue.
There are levels of remuneration where you'll put up with a lot though.
You're right, but it's not binary.