Back when I was a little tadpole in the school of Hogwarts, I remember how useful ratemyprofessor was for picking classes. I did a search to see if there was something similar for rating managers, and found ratemyboss.com. Given how terrible some managers can be, I would say it’s absolutely necessary. Why doesn’t the blind community contribute to that site? Note, I have zero affiliation to said site. Perhaps what we need is ratemyteam to rate teams instead of managers and avoid defamation lawsuits.
Lol.
A typical L6 manager has somewhere around 10 reports. A professor might teach thousands of students over several years. You can rate upper management but a typical engineer is so far removed that they don't have anything insightful to add
The other huge difference is that you are done with a professor after a semester whereas you are stuck with your manager unless you change teams. Also, managers hate being rated and take it more personal.
I think word of mouth usually does a good enough job.
External hires can only judge a manager based on a short interview, unless they know people at the company who will spill the beans on the manager. It would be awkward to ask your potential future teammates to give you dirt on the flacid scrum watered down waterfall practioning micromanaging pointy haired pencil pusher ;)
That’s all true but I’m ok with joining to a bad manager. I just leave the team abruptly and then it looks bad on the manager. I’m doing this now as I write this 😂 current manager is a moron. Leaving team just shortly after joining. For SWEs the manager needs us more than we need them.
this would probably lead to rate my employee where your shitty manager and their friends will be able to ruin your reputation publicly instead of only inside your office
Guessing Servicenow has a lot of examples of the Peter principle. You would sue them and get rich? Possible solutions for this might be restricting it so only employees of the company can see the managers reviews. As you soon as you join a company, you can look at your managers reviews and decide if you want to bail. Or using the product area name or something to identify the manager indirectly. Ratemyteam has a nice ring to it.
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Too hard to remain anonymous
You could only rate the manager on leadership, competence, etc and not leave any identifying comments :)
Still too easy to identify cuz so few people report to one manager. Might work at director level and up but Glassdoor basically does that