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Absolutely. I worked at GE for 5 years and their reluctance to performance manage individual contributors was just insane. They will do anything to cut people i
by mberning 4y ago
Absolutely. I worked at GE for 5 years and their reluctance to performance manage individual contributors was just insane. They will do anything to cut people in ways that are not performance related. VJRP. SERO. Contractor reductions. Site eliminations. And then finally the blanket RIF. I never saw anybody get fired for poor performance, and many of them should have been. And they also make it hell on people leaders to put people on PIPs. If you take over a team and 50% of them are slackers you can not put all of them on PIPs. HR will start looking at you as a people leader. “Why can’t you motivate and inspire these people?” It was insane really. I actually loved working there, but the bureaucratic BS was crazy.
- siva7 4y agoWell, why can’t you motivate and inspire these people? Nothing insane about this question
- mberning 4y agoIt’s not a bad or unreasonable question, but it is completely ignorant and pollyannish. These are the same HR professionals that let managers submit high or acceptable marks for all employees every year and then wonder why a large number of teams underperform. Inside large orgs you will regularly encounter people that have insanely high titles and their only appreciable skill is being able to survive inside the bureaucracy like a cockroach after successive nuclear blasts. You will encounter senior and staff enterprise software engineers that have never written a line of code and have zero commits ever.