New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Thoughts on Stack Ranking for Perf Reviews?
Ask HN: Thoughts on Stack Ranking for Perf Reviews?
4 by tasoeur | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN crowd. I'm a new manager in a relatively large company (think FAANG) and just went through a training for employee performance training. For each direct report, we are expected to provide a rating (meet expectations, does not meet, exceed etc.), but in addition to that, we also need to "rank" each individual within each rating, with the goal of helping our director do a "calibration" that will basically curve overall ratings at the org/company level (meaning that someone who meets expectations may be pushed down to "does not meet", purely to match some statistics). My knee jerk reaction here was that this was pretty unethical, after all, if someone does meet expectations and the data is there, it should be possible to give them the corresponding rating / comp increase? But then after talking with other manager friends from other companies, it does seem to be something that a lot of companies do to some extent... So here comes my question: what do you guys think of this practice? Is it an acceptable business practice? Should such companies be named and shamed?
4 by tasoeur | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN crowd. I'm a new manager in a relatively large company (think FAANG) and just went through a training for employee performance training. For each direct report, we are expected to provide a rating (meet expectations, does not meet, exceed etc.), but in addition to that, we also need to "rank" each individual within each rating, with the goal of helping our director do a "calibration" that will basically curve overall ratings at the org/company level (meaning that someone who meets expectations may be pushed down to "does not meet", purely to match some statistics). My knee jerk reaction here was that this was pretty unethical, after all, if someone does meet expectations and the data is there, it should be possible to give them the corresponding rating / comp increase? But then after talking with other manager friends from other companies, it does seem to be something that a lot of companies do to some extent... So here comes my question: what do you guys think of this practice? Is it an acceptable business practice? Should such companies be named and shamed?
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