Amazon and Meta PIP people a lot. I wonder whether that’s aligning with performance review. Like we give everybody review then we find out who needs improvement and PIP them. Or it can be arbitrary? Like you receive good review recently but one day your skip manager decides you are not good enough (maybe some low quality PR) and PIP you?
System is “stack ranking.” In other words, you have to avoid being the bottom 20% when compared to everyone else. This means you can get PIPed for having objectively good ratings if everyone else got great ratings.
PIP is not as random as folks here on Blind might lead one to believe. A documented top performer (not talking about folks who self certify as top performers) cannot go from top of the rank to PIP without strong reasons (unless we are talking about conduct etc). Most big companies have a forced curve and at a high level the numbers are not unreasonable. There are certainly a lot of exceptions to this; not saying everything is fair - Just saying that not everyone needs to worry about being PIPd all the time
May not be what’s happening around you, I’ve experienced otherwise. A guy got promoted last year, PIP’d this year, the reason was “we did a bad job promoting him last year”!
Yes. They can just conjure up a list of things and simply manage you out the door.
At amazon you are pip’d for meeting the URA quota, doesn’t matter what is/was your performance have been, or currently how you are performing.
URA?
It is pronounced OOOOOOOORAAAAAAAH