I know the survey is supposed to be anonymous. It isn't, of course. But I'm still being honest in the survey.
They asked about the communication about the merger and I answered them honestly. Let's see if changes anything.
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Fill it out with 100% positive answers if you would like your current manager/group to be reflected in a good light.
It gives them brownie points but is otherwise totally useless.
That strategy also means you can fill it out in under 1 minute and get in with your day vs dwelling about the clusterfÛck that is VMware and figuring out a polite way to tell the management just how F’d the company is being run.
It changes as much as repeated complaints in leaving surveys make.
LOL. You must be new here. Nothing changes here because of the survey. They have already decided what they will do and the survey data will be used to support that existing plan :) Also it will help identify free thinkers like you. Get ready to be demotivated and demoted to the point when you will leave on your own.
It's been more than 10 years that developer productivity is "really important, we hear you!" Despite constant criticism on this front, it continues to get worse on a weekly basis.
Do you honestly think that the satisfaction survey is going to have an affect on anything beyond getting you and / or your manager on a list?
People have been honest on the survey for years.
One year they were so honest that they reduced the number questions and sent it out again in a few months. They reduced the questions so they didn't get any bad news on things they had no intention of fixing.
i did neutral or disagree in several areas