if they hire the best why do they need to PIP.
does this LP mean when someone is PIPed, the interview loop should be PIPed too?
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Everyone’s getting a PIP!
It's all a load of bullcrap of course, esp. the bar is continuously lowered, not raised, which is true for all large organisations (Google included, of course).
Btw, all companies have PIP or equivalent thereof, Amazon is not unique in this (it's not even unique in forcing the curve / stack ranking, and forced URA quotas) - it just happens to be quite large so a lot of people complain about being PIPped *and* forced out of there.
Yes Google has pip and yes Google has curve fitting which means there is an expectation that certain percentage of the population will get NI hence PIP.
It's the same thing as in Amazon up until this point. However, Amazon also has a quota on how many people they want to say goodbye to, and to get there the PIP 'budget' even needs to start above the LE rating sometimes.
Similar to Google, Microsoft doesn't do the latter now... though both did for some time in some form, at Google it lasted one perf season only though, while MS had very real stack ranking and bottom culling for a while. Amazon also had periods/business units with low or zero URA quotas, but apparently not anymore.
And this is a rather common practice in smaller businesses, or any place where there is a straightforward correlation between individual performance and business success. (This is why Amazon sticks to that I suppose, since they run the warehouses that operate in this simple model, and they want to treat everyone the 'same')
I agree Amazon cannot really keep this up, not at this scale, it's just ridiculous.