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Nope, these are actual guidelines Microsoft uses to make hiring, promotion, and compensation decisions. city41's comment is 100% accurate about how these things
by justinweiss 16y ago
Nope, these are actual guidelines Microsoft uses to make hiring, promotion, and compensation decisions. city41's comment is 100% accurate about how these things are used.
The entire list of 'competencies' is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/allcompetencies.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/allcompetenc...
It probably started as your typical big-company CYA in case someone tries to sue them for HR-related stuff and grew into this monster as some middle manager began empire-building.
There's even a wheel, in case you felt like making a poster: (pdf) http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/4/7/3477e49d-315d-4ee7-a8ca-ff653a4455d6/Competency_Wheel.pdf http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/4/7/3477e49d-315d-4...
- tragiclos 16y agoFor some reason, humor and compassion are the only competencies that don't appear on the wheel. Also, does anyone else find it troubling that "results" make up such a thin sliver of the wheel o' competency?
- chbarts 16y ago> Nope, these are actual guidelines Microsoft uses to make hiring, promotion, and compensation decisions. city41's comment is 100% accurate about how these things are used. So... it's edgy humor in the form of a terrifying practical joke? Maybe Andy Kaufman didn't die after all.
- larsberg 16y agoThese linked ones are the education ones. They are completely different in content from the ones used in in the product team roles.
- Groxx 16y agoIt's terrifying, but I agree. This has to be real... I want it to be a joke, because it'd be pretty frickin' funny if it were, but it can't be. I was about to post the same discovery, but you beat me to it. Bah! And +1!