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At Google, which I'm pretty confident the parent comment was describing, promotion is supposed to be recognition that you've already been consistently performin
by endtime 4y ago
At Google, which I'm pretty confident the parent comment was describing, promotion is supposed to be recognition that you've already been consistently performing at that level for a long time. So someone newly promoted is not actually up-leveled, they're just no longer down-leveled.
- nr2x 4y agoI’m aware, point stands. If you meet somebody for the first time the L* sets an expectation. You need to grow into it.
- refulgentis 4y agoNot in this case, here, my claim is the role was very clearly grown into, and the rating reflected the fact that these decisions are mostly tenure-based, + or - 2 or 3 years, and the rating was always going to be average even if I cured cancer, as was explicitly spelled out later. That disincentives putting in effort because it doesn't matter. Creates an uncomfortable nihilist atmosphere that can be suffocatingly depressive
- endtime 4y agoYeah...in at least one part of Google, as recently as last year, getting a rating higher than "meets expectations" in the second perf cycle after promo required a VP to approve an exception. Part of why I left.