Be_the_Link t1_j9r3yke wrote on February 23, 2023 at 11:28 PM

Reply to Mom and Me in Burlington, Iowa (1980) by sleep_naked

The way your mom looks at you with such pride. :)

Be_the_Link t1_ixf5kxw wrote on November 22, 2022 at 11:43 PM

Reply to comment by kingkeelay in Amazon Recently Told Managers to Identify, 'Stack Rank' Low Performers Immediately by Truetree9999

It was not my decision. You are the biased one.

Be_the_Link t1_iwubqa6 wrote on November 18, 2022 at 12:22 PM

Reply to comment by OpenMathematician602 in Amazon Recently Told Managers to Identify, 'Stack Rank' Low Performers Immediately by Truetree9999

Around that period of time, not very much!

Be_the_Link t1_iwsxzq8 wrote on November 18, 2022 at 2:43 AM

Reply to Amazon Recently Told Managers to Identify, 'Stack Rank' Low Performers Immediately by Truetree9999

I was a director at a large, older, software company in California. At the time we had about 18k global employees. Times got tough and they asked us to have our teams stack rank so that's what we did. One of my direct reports was pregnant with twins, but without a doubt the poorest performing member of my organization. My team had lots of visibility upwards so there was no hiding it. Thinking purely objectively I really had no choice, but the human in me still feels terrible about that. The VPs would scrutinize the lists and had a good sense of their teams, so you really have no choice but to be objective. It's rough. Rougher, of course, for that poor woman. FWIW her husband has a successful career so at least I knew she wouldn't be destitute.