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> Microsoft has a similar program My, um, psychic powers for predicting the future tells me anybody with autism issues or even just introversion who goes there
by ThrowawayP 8y ago
> Microsoft has a similar program
My, um, psychic powers for predicting the future tells me anybody with autism issues or even just introversion who goes there will be penalized heavily in the stack rankings (which they no longer formally do, but informally...) at performance review time for lack of "visiblity" year after year and eventually be washed out of MS as "good attrition".
- m_sahaf 8y agoIt might help that Microsoft has already abandoned the stack ranking process[0]. [0] https://hbr.org/2013/11/dont-rate-your-employees-on-a-curve https://hbr.org/2013/11/dont-rate-your-employees-on-a-curve
- DaiPlusPlus 8y agoIt still exists for the purposes of bonus and raise distribution (“rewards”) - and while the mandatory rank-and-yank policy has been removed, there’s still pressure within management to eliminate lower-performers. A huge problem with Microsoft’s employee evaluation system (“//connect”) is the fact it’s still self-evaluation. If you’re too honest or self-critical regardless of actual performance then you will be pseudo-ranked lower than someone who knows how to bullshit their way through self-evaluations. Let’s just say I learned the hard way. Being (constructively) self-critical in self-evaluations was drilled into me in Catholic school and it actually really helped me in university, but no-one told me it’s career self-sabotage when you enter the workforce. I have ASD as well.