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I don't get why you need to sabotage others? Does your bonus size shrink if others get a bonus or something?
by tayo42 5y ago
I don't get why you need to sabotage others? Does your bonus size shrink if others get a bonus or something?
- randyrand 5y agoyes. that’s pretty typical. managers get a lump sum to distribute among the team, at least at Apple.
- solenoidalslide 5y agoAll those managers seem to think it's a good enough motivator to keep it around.
- masklinn 5y agoIt's certainly a good way to have a lot of monkeys jumping when you say so.
- cornel_io 5y agoThat's not even stack ranking - managers being assigned a fixed pool of $ to give out for raises and bonuses across their reports (or their branch of the org tree if director or above) is pretty standard at any big company. It's pretty reasonable if you "ship your org chart" and can easily measure each team's contribution. It's much trickier and more prone to unfair allocation when people switch teams a lot or contribute outside their team, i.e. if one of my engineers went above and beyond and boosted some other team's profits by a bunch, I'm probably not going to get extra money to allocate to my people as a result since the higher level execs don't usually follow credit assignment at that level.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoBonus pool competition is typically zero sum. For you to get more, someone must get less.
- cornel_io 5y agoEverything is nearly zero sum when it comes to bonus and salary once you're a level or two below C-level, as it has to be. That's how budgets work, and the only people who get to determine "what % of company cash flow do we want to dedicate to personnel costs?" are pretty high up the ladder.
- dilyevsky 5y agoStack ranking (aka performance calibration)