Performance cycle stress in Facebook

Aug 1, 2020 113 Comments

For those curious about whether people in fb fear getting PIPed and what is the cause for stress in our bi annual performance cycles (yes, we have one every half), I took screenshot of a survey we ran on blind asking precisely that (why does the performance make you stressed?).

As with all blind polls, this is very unscientific and probably suffers from a lot of biases, but that's the best we have...

Note that most people are stressed because they are expecting a promotion or high rating. About 1 in 4 are worried about getting a low rating and half of these fear PIP (roughly 12% of respondents).

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Performance cycle stress in Facebook

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  • Listen Facebookers there is no doubt that you guys move fast, pay the best in the industry and also work on very interesting problems at scale. No other company on the planet can match all the above criteria. However it comes with stress and hit in wlb. There is no free lunch anywhere. FB is only meant for people who are smart and can put in the hours plus work in a stress environment.
    Aug 1, 2020 8
    • Facebook / Eng
      checkcall

      Go to company page Facebook Eng

      checkcall
      I work on making user data more privacy sensitive. I’m paid well. I don’t work too hard. I have growth opportunities to get promoted. Big scale challenges. It’s not the most interesting work, but hits all the other boxes.
      Aug 3, 2020
    • @higsdf

      I know plenty of booking employees who rejected FB offers (in fact I am one of them). The fact that you don't have the imagination to picture that anyone would reject a FB offer, just shows your intelligence level (or lack there of).

      And s/he is right about Facebook not selected for smart people, because none of the problems during the interview require original thinking or problem solving.
      Aug 17, 2020
  • Google
    Dr. Seuss

    Go to company page Google

    Dr. Seuss
    Thanks for sharing. The essential difference between G and F is that in G you can write all your contributions since last promotion. In F you are a blank slate each half so you can only write about the half.

    Easy to see which one is more stressful but keeps you working hard and giving you rewards accordingly, and which one promotes tenureship.... and not meritocracy.
    Aug 1, 2020 7
  • Please don’t try to portray saying your culture is similar to google/LinkedIn etc. nobody is going to believe that.
    Aug 1, 2020 8
  • Quarter of employees worried about low ratings/PIP is not a healthy environment.
    Aug 1, 2020 4
  • surprise surprise, FB employees don't overdramatize pips like the fb rejects on blind. Again, pips are rare.

    Other companies should run the same survey. Would be interesting to see results.
    Aug 1, 2020 11