oldcreaker t1_iwsfuox wrote on November 18, 2022 at 12:20 AM

Under the new system, managers have been asked to categorize 6% of employees, or roughly 10,000 people, as low performers in terms of their impact for the business, according to people with knowledge of the system.

I've seen this system before - it's the one that if your group are all outstanding performers, some of them get dumped anyway, while in another group that's all underperforming, most of them keep their jobs.

WayneKrane t1_iwsn8si wrote on November 18, 2022 at 1:19 AM

My first job did this and managers just rated the employees that were their friends high and everyone else low. Still salty a women my boss was best friends with got a very high rating while I got average. I consistently was double or triple her metrics. I asked my manager about it and she said she had to rate me that way to make her numbers work (ie. she would have to rate her friend lower than me). Couldn’t leave that place fast enough.

JoyousGamer t1_iwunikm wrote on November 18, 2022 at 2:09 PM

That's when you report it and get a paper trail if you can ahead of time saving it to a personal device.

Independent-Disk-390 t1_iwu5aqx wrote on November 18, 2022 at 11:06 AM

Yuuup. Had the same happen to me. In my experience mid-management is often at their limits of comprehension. Many are terrified of losing their cush jobs, so the ignorant typically gaslight and mess around with things like tone-policing and micro-management. Such behavior is always to the detriment of their team and really is just kicking the can down the road, so to speak.

Edit: Oh by the way, if you’re high up enough you’re doing their job for the most part anyway.

dungone t1_iwv3g1d wrote on November 18, 2022 at 4:04 PM

> she said she had to rate me that way to make her numbers work

In order to give her friend a higher score, she had to give you a lower score. Don't you get it? You should blame numbers.

Dont-know-you t1_iwt2ri9 wrote on November 18, 2022 at 3:22 AM

The “quota” applies only at an org of 2k+ (or may be 1k+, I need to re-read it). There was a similar system in the past without any guidelines. Historically that was 2-5%. Google s rolling out a new system and they are saying the bottom 2 ratings are expected to be about 6%. Given what I saw over the past many many years at Google, it won’t be an issue. But the company sucks when it comes to communicating this to the employees and causes stress to low level managers until they go through one or two cycles.

toogloo1 t1_iwtng02 wrote on November 18, 2022 at 6:52 AM

Or, you hire below your standards and scapegoat that person so nobody in your team that works well gets wacked.