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I was at Google in 2011 and I remember the internal flame wars you triggered about performance reviews. You mis-characterized the process internally then, and y
by oppositelock 11y ago
I was at Google in 2011 and I remember the internal flame wars you triggered about performance reviews. You mis-characterized the process internally then, and you mischaracterize it now.
Perhaps you were on a dysfunctional team, or had a particularly bad manager, but this is most certainly not the general case.
Stack ranking was not mandatory, but the perf UI certainly let you stack rank your peers if you wanted. I never did and management never cared. There was certainly no curve, and managers did not have to create low performers by quota.
If there's one complaint I had about the Google perf system was that it rewarded popularity and networking perhaps more than competence and effectiveness.
- paul 11y agoBut how could a company that fired the great Michael O. Church possibly be anything other than pure evil? More seriously, I would never want to work at a place that is structurally unable to fire toxic people, which is one of the big downsides of unionization from the "worker" perspective.
- michaelochurch2 11y agoGoogle never fired me. Google isn't pure evil. Its problem is that, since its inception, it's had the attitude that engineering is smart people work and everything else (design, HR, people management) is stupid people work. So, guess who sets up its HR systems? And who, might one expect, makes product decisions?