Your boss probably had to seem to love his job. Indeed, that's part of the job, as a middle manager. What's amazing about corporate is that, when you get together years later and the truth comes out because everyone has…
This times 100. Being a middle manager sucks even more, because you have no real ability to protect people. When the people under you are happy and doing well, you spend no real time with them... because you're…
To the people who run tech companies, and the corporate system as a whole, burnout is a feature, not a bug. The people in charge are not very smart and they can't recognize talent, so their only way to pick the next…
PM is a negative contribution role, so what does "performance" even mean? Getting programmers to accept Jirafication?
I'm sure they are. Most SWEs hired at Google are pretty good at programming and don't need to be tucked away in PM.
Google's preferred method to "fire" a lousy programmer is to make him a PM.
In big tech companies, who gets fired has very low correlation to performance. Instead, it usually comes down to: (1) people who make their bosses look bad are first to go. (2) next are people who are perceived to cost…
Probably just managers encouraged to increase the % of people who go on PIPs. That's how tech companies usually do layoffs. Rather than admit they overexpanded and have to cut people (or that they are cannibalizing…
There's a 95% chance that this is a disguised RIF. People they want to keep will be able to continue WFH if they want. People who are on the margins or destined for the Performance Improvement Camps will have to come in…
I think a small percentage of people are self-motivated, and more productively at home, but watching this all play out for the last 2 years makes me realize that an awful lot of people are going to try to get away with…
I get a bit annoyed hearing about the 2 hour a day folks. They are probably forcing their peers or managers to take on more work than is their fair share. Maybe not. In the corporate world, 90% of work is work that was…
Your boss probably had to seem to love his job. Indeed, that's part of the job, as a middle manager. What's amazing about corporate is that, when you get together years later and the truth comes out because everyone has…
This times 100. Being a middle manager sucks even more, because you have no real ability to protect people. When the people under you are happy and doing well, you spend no real time with them... because you're…
To the people who run tech companies, and the corporate system as a whole, burnout is a feature, not a bug. The people in charge are not very smart and they can't recognize talent, so their only way to pick the next…
PM is a negative contribution role, so what does "performance" even mean? Getting programmers to accept Jirafication?
I'm sure they are. Most SWEs hired at Google are pretty good at programming and don't need to be tucked away in PM.
Google's preferred method to "fire" a lousy programmer is to make him a PM.
In big tech companies, who gets fired has very low correlation to performance. Instead, it usually comes down to: (1) people who make their bosses look bad are first to go. (2) next are people who are perceived to cost…
Probably just managers encouraged to increase the % of people who go on PIPs. That's how tech companies usually do layoffs. Rather than admit they overexpanded and have to cut people (or that they are cannibalizing…
There's a 95% chance that this is a disguised RIF. People they want to keep will be able to continue WFH if they want. People who are on the margins or destined for the Performance Improvement Camps will have to come in…
I think a small percentage of people are self-motivated, and more productively at home, but watching this all play out for the last 2 years makes me realize that an awful lot of people are going to try to get away with…
I get a bit annoyed hearing about the 2 hour a day folks. They are probably forcing their peers or managers to take on more work than is their fair share. Maybe not. In the corporate world, 90% of work is work that was…