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Would you like to be specific, or link to something with more context, for those who don't know what you are referring to?

mikeyouse 4y ago
Yeah that's a really weird critique -- the linked article from November says they have sources telling them that Google was going to adjust their PIP so that 6% instead of 2% of people fall into the lowest category. Then in December, Google gave details of their new ranking system --- and 6% of employees will fall into the lowest ranking category (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-higher-risk-of-low-performance-ratings-in-2023.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-highe...). I guess you could argue they didn't "announce layoffs" like the others, but when you start shuffling tens of thousands of employees into a PIP, is the result not the same?
- UncleMeat 4y ago
  That't not correct at all. 2% are expected to be in the lowest bucket. 4% are expected to be in another "below normal" ratings bucket. Neither of these ratings are tied to PIPs. Even in the old system, most people who received "Needs Improvement" ratings were not given PIPs. Google also gave details of the rating system and expected distributions in March, not December.
UncleMeat 4y ago
A few months ago there was a Forbes contributor article (e.g., blog post) that claimed that Google was going to lay off 10,000 people (6% of the company). Their argument for this was that Google introduced a new performance review system in 2022 that changed the expected ratings distributions such that roughly 6% of the company was expected to receive either of the two ratings below the baseline "significant impact" rating. From this, oodles of news outlets reported the headline: "Google plans on laying off 10,000 people." The new performance review system was created in 2021 and announced in like March 2022. It is independent of the current context of tech layoffs. Maybe Google will lay people off, I don't know. But the original post is just baseless nonsense and it is frustrating to see it repeated all over the place.

mikeyouse 4y ago

Yeah that's a really weird critique -- the linked article from November says they have sources telling them that Google was going to adjust their PIP so that 6% instead of 2% of people fall into the lowest category. Then in December, Google gave details of their new ranking system --- and 6% of employees will fall into the lowest ranking category (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-higher-risk-of-low-performance-ratings-in-2023.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-highe...). I guess you could argue they didn't "announce layoffs" like the others, but when you start shuffling tens of thousands of employees into a PIP, is the result not the same?

UncleMeat 4y ago
That't not correct at all. 2% are expected to be in the lowest bucket. 4% are expected to be in another "below normal" ratings bucket. Neither of these ratings are tied to PIPs. Even in the old system, most people who received "Needs Improvement" ratings were not given PIPs. Google also gave details of the rating system and expected distributions in March, not December.

UncleMeat 4y ago

A few months ago there was a Forbes contributor article (e.g., blog post) that claimed that Google was going to lay off 10,000 people (6% of the company). Their argument for this was that Google introduced a new performance review system in 2022 that changed the expected ratings distributions such that roughly 6% of the company was expected to receive either of the two ratings below the baseline "significant impact" rating. From this, oodles of news outlets reported the headline: "Google plans on laying off 10,000 people." The new performance review system was created in 2021 and announced in like March 2022. It is independent of the current context of tech layoffs. Maybe Google will lay people off, I don't know. But the original post is just baseless nonsense and it is frustrating to see it repeated all over the place.