Does your company have a system in place to review a manager anonymously?

Jan 16, 2019 14 Comments

AFAIK Microsoft doesn't have one and Amazon has one. Curious to know about other companies. If not, how do you decide on moving to a team without knowing about manager or team culture?

I don't want to buy the BS that a manager is trying to sell me.

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  • Google / Mgmt
    starlight1

    Go to company page Google Mgmt

    starlight1
    Googlegeist is what it's called here. It's more about the entire leadership chain rolling up to the CEO, anonymous feedback. There's also a specific manager feedback survey (MFS)
    Jan 16, 2019 2
    • Amazon
      Hoobastank

      Go to company page Amazon

      Hoobastank
      I'm sure it is very anonymous.
      Just like in Amazon where managers cannot pick off your responses given enough data over a larger time frame. And everyone turning blue in the face yelling how it's absolutely anonymous.
      Jan 16, 2019
    • Google / Mgmt
      starlight1

      Go to company page Google Mgmt

      starlight1
      I'm sure the HR has access. They restrict managers from seeing non anonymous data though - the online tool definitely doesn't show the identity of people and even hides feedback if there are fewer than 4 entries for a given manager. But I'm sure if some manager was very good "friends" with someone in HR, they could find out stuff that they shouldn't know..
      Jan 16, 2019
  • LinkedIn / Eng
    pakoda

    Go to company page LinkedIn Eng

    pakoda
    Mgmnt make employees fool saying Glint survey is anonymous
    Jan 16, 2019 2
  • Grab
    jGYo68

    Go to company page Grab

    jGYo68
    you should keep in mind that writing styles gives up the author. There are many online tools that can help with that or avoid that.
    Jan 16, 2019 0
  • Amazon
    8==🀠

    Go to company page Amazon

    8==🀠
    What about asking in Blind in company section?
    Jan 16, 2019 0
  • New
    nfs

    New

    PRE
    Booking.com
    nfs
    Booking.com use to have one, then it becomes open (non-anonymous).
    This helps managers to understand the context of the feedback when they see where who it comes from (same as any other peer feedback) rather then an anonymous rant.
    Jan 16, 2019 1
    • Microsoft / Eng
      YKtY52

      Go to company page Microsoft Eng

      YKtY52
      Microsoft's MSPoll is anonymous (for now at least). The comments employees make are aggregated and rolled up at least one management layer. So my manager would never see what I wrote, but my skip could see the aggregated feedback from the whole team and discuss it with my manager.

      IIRC on very small teams it rolls up 2 layers to make it harder for managers to piece together who said what. I might be wrong about that though.
      Jan 16, 2019