Which company has the fairest performance management system?
Aug 23, 2019
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Some companies pay more (or less) than others
Some companies demand a higher (or lower) bar
Some companies have a better (or worse) wlb
BUT
which company will treat you the fairest in performance reviews?
(E.g. least politics, most systematic, best compensation for big achievements, etc)
Please comment with why you think the system works the best
@Facebook @Google @Microsoft @Oracle @uber @Airbnb
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In fact, recent changes have it trending towards the average. L5 and under and it's up to your local stack rank.
FB has been successful so far, but I could see Facebook may have some stumble blocks to overcome in long term. IMO, FB has so many people at higher levels who are not that good, they are there because of lot of hard work sacrificing WLB but in reality they don't have skills needed for that role. Most of them would fail an interview at the same level at Google. We will know in long term how is that going to affect the company as a whole.
Microsoft is the company of politics. Their success in the past 20 years were held of because of that. I believe it has changed recently after their new CEO. But not sure.
At Amazon promotion is purely at manager discretion. However a manager has to show success of his or her team to the top management. As long as they can show success, they can promote whomsoever they want. It is more of a capitalist mechanism at play in Amazon. So a manager has to reward their team who are bringing them success. There is room for politics but it would eventually balance out.
Netflix has a very opaque process. No title change. No promotion. All we have is single title. So no one know what is going under the hood. IMO, this is not good as engineers have no way to compare themselves against to see at what level they are operating at. Hence room for lot more politics.