Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843615
$14m in security. Where does that money even go, high-tech weapons?
Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
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Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
For my org the performance review should not be surprising for the employees. Through 1:1 and continuous feedback they should exactly know where they are. This should be the opportunity to formalize the feedback and set goals for the next cycle.
Then they seem kind of superfluous to 1:1s, right? Without 1:1s, performance reviews alone would not be very effective for employee growth. With 1:1s, they are more of a formality - not adding anything new to the conversation.
It's so the middle managers can see that the line managers have done some due diligence. This is to prevent the case where line managers "don't have a good feeling" about an employee but can't point to specific items that have been communicated to the employee.
In an ideal world with great line managers you wouldn't need a performance review, it would be handled in 1:1s.
That's not our world and we need rigid formal systems to increase the likelihood that basic steps are followed, on average across many managers and employees.
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then they seem kind of superfluous to 1:1s, right? Without 1:1s, performance reviews alone would not be very effective for employee growth. With 1:1s, they are more of a formality - not adding anything new to the conversation.
It's so the middle managers can see that the line managers have done some due diligence. This is to prevent the case where line managers "don't have a good feeling" about an employee but can't point to specific items that have been communicated to the employee. In an ideal world with great line managers you wouldn't need a performance review, it would be handled in 1:1s. That's not our world and we need rigid formal…
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Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#54Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843615
$14m in security. Where does that money even go, high-tech weapons?
The Internet tells me executive protection bodyguards run about $150/hr, so let's presume Zuck springs for that. There are about 8760 hours in a year, so a single bodyguard 24/7 runs $1.3m/year. $14m sounds like half a dozen people plus expenses and overhead.
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then they seem kind of superfluous to 1:1s, right? Without 1:1s, performance reviews alone would not be very effective for employee growth. With 1:1s, they are more of a formality - not adding anything new to the conversation.
It's so the middle managers can see that the line managers have done some due diligence. This is to prevent the case where line managers "don't have a good feeling" about an employee but can't point to specific items that have been communicated to the employee. In an ideal world with great line managers you wouldn't need a performance review, it would be handled in 1:1s. That's not our world and we need rigid formal…
I don’t know… In my experience, managers’ bias can sneak into performance reviews. Sometimes that puts a spotlight on the manager and has consequences, but not always.
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#56Does Zuck get a perf review too?
How does losing $100 billion sound?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/mark-zuck...
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#57This is one of the reasons so many people do not take management seriously. If your performance qualification depends on how many people the company wants to fire then your performance is not what is being evaluated. In good companies, jobs have a set of well expectations. Your performance is measure against that expectations. The company may be about to close and yet your performance can be good. After pulling somet…
You can replace almost all performance reviews (and grading in school) with “these people would be fired/fail before you” and anything else is just playing pretend.
Who said anything about grades?
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#58This is one of the reasons so many people do not take management seriously. If your performance qualification depends on how many people the company wants to fire then your performance is not what is being evaluated. In good companies, jobs have a set of well expectations. Your performance is measure against that expectations. The company may be about to close and yet your performance can be good. After pulling somet…
You can replace almost all performance reviews (and grading in school) with “these people would be fired/fail before you” and anything else is just playing pretend.
That's basically stack ranking. You can stack rank employees from critical to least important, as well as entire departments. But like with all management systems, it too can be gamed.
People put their friends ahead of others, or they might fire one half of a married couple over a worse employee that's the single wage earner. At a defense contractor I once worked at, we talked about it being highly dangerous to be married to another employee.
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#59Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843615
Zuck needs protection from foreign governments, spy agencies and prying hedge funds or just from anyone that could profit/benefit from harming or spying on him.
Re: Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews
#60All these big companies give grade employees on a curve. So, in Meta parlance, only 5-10% of employees can be "Strongly Exceeds Expectations". This is measured across the director level, so units of 100-200 employees. Here's the problem: at Meta 10-15% of employees in these buckets has to get a subpar rating. This includes Meets Most Expectations (2 MMs in a row probably means you're on a PIP), Meets Some (probably a…
Can you explain where "tbgs genTargetPercentage" comes from? Googling it just brings up your own comment.