Leaked Microsoft documents detail an employee performance review system where managers are quietly asked to adjust workers' results to limit the highest ratings
Leaked Microsoft documents detail an employee performance review system where managers are quietly asked to adjust workers' results to limit the highest ratings
Microsoft's review process includes a mandate for managers to distribute employees across a scale, documents and managers say.
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That's literally every company.
As a manager, you get frustrated because no matter how good an employee is,they won't let you rate them as high as they should be, for...reasons.
Psst!
Its because they don't want to raise their pay, and also want the employee to blame themselves for not getting the pay raise/promotion instead of their greedy employer.
But don't tell anyone. Its a secret!
another reason I heard is it's also another tool to give the company wiggle room to say they're not in the best state they could be, that there's still room for growth. under the current system, companies have to keep growing and keep appearing to have the potential for growth, or die
Unless you're telling your sick grandmother she looks great, deception as a standard practice makes you a deceiver. They're clearly comfortable with that, though.
I was actually told during a review that they couldn't rank me higher because then they'd have to give me more money. My boss said I deserved it, but they didn't have the money to give it to me.
I started looking for a new job that day.
And yet they always seem to have enough money for executive bonuses and excursions...
Not to mention hiring the always more expensive replacement dev.
Used to work for CenturyLink. The year they took away our Christmas bonus is the same year the company really took a nosedive.
CEO got a 20
billionmillion dollar bonus, enough to cover our Christmas bonuses and still give him 15 million.Surely billion should be million there, no?
Shit, yes
I had something similar! But my manager was a former dev that I worked for that didn't know how to manage and tried to convince me that I didn't deserve it.
I got a 30% raise moving elsewhere.
My wife's company does this overtly.
Raises are based on performance scores, they were prohibited from giving top scores for any category, because "nobody's perfect."
But when asked what could be done better there's never any answer.
It's why I focus on work life balance over everything else. No point in giving away weekends and nights for an average review. Average is perfectly rine with me, but that's also what I give now.
Yes. I work at a power plant in a large department. The best “ratings” that dictates our bonus multiplier is limited to five people because there are certainly only five people whose performance exceeds expectations. /s
The reason why is more that you have to justify top performmers against their peers and against their role responsibilities. That takes work and many managers dont want to do it.