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Note that at Microsoft, a good manager (i.e. somebody who takes care of his/her people) will spend far more on the stack rank process than on, say, product stra
by sprague 13y ago
Note that at Microsoft, a good manager (i.e. somebody who takes care of his/her people) will spend far more on the stack rank process than on, say, product strategy.
- kabdib 13y agoWell, you have managers who are good at both. You want that kind. But in the absence of any kind of ability to produce something, yeah, you want a manager who is politically savvy, and who can protect you, and can promote you well in the stack rankings. (I had a couple managers who were /terrible/ at this, and my "performance" suffered. In reality it was all presentation and horse-trading).
- r00fus 13y agoGreat for the manager, and the employees, but what about the company? What sane business do you want managers being better at "stacked ranking" than product strategy? This to me, is indicative of why Microsoft has failed - when your daily job is to prove that the team next to you - not your team is the one that should take all the bad reviews, that's pitting employee vs. employee, when it should be employee vs. external competitors