If so, how do you manage situations where you're told to rate someone lower than they deserve? I personally can't imagine doing that. Does it ever feel wrong to you, or is it just part of the job? I'm curious if you find it hard to make that call or if it comes naturally because it's all about business.
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Respond intelligently to the incentive. Transfer to a team with low performers. Hire low performers.
Aren't most people at Qualcomm managers? Most of them manage to do nothing while a few people actually work. Like SDGE supervisors watching the one person work and then promote the other 4 people watching to managers while the on!y guy working is still working
Especially Indian Telugu managers , who rate based on which community you come from 🤮
I’ve seen people put additional surnames on lab coats just to flaunt which community they are from
Former senior staff/manager here. Yes to all questions. The performance review process is done on a curve (it wasn't always that way). There is a very specific number of each rating that can be given and HR holds the executive management to it. So yes, one of your direct reports can get hosed and it absolutely feels wrong. Several years ago if you could justify your direct reports' rating it would go through, no curve involved.
It's a business thing but it's often also very political, you just have to roll with it as a manager. Not fun but a fact of life.
Where it gets really bad is when a senior director decides after the deliberations to lower a rating of someone. That really su-ks. I told my director that the senior directors/VP should just make all the rating decisions and save a ton of time and money since they do that kind of thing anyway.
Not hard at all for a lot of undeserving South Indian managers in SD. Will sell mothers to earn dollars.