Is thisa new company wide policy or divisional
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If you are getting a formal midyear you will most likely be shown the door next April.
3/3 sample I know that doing formal mid-year are for “something else” which many employees realized a few years later but not at that time.
Or policy are used for some purpose not stated, like diversity for BK’s affair.
Mid-year used to be for promos and performance management. If you do not fit into either, you are ok and would not know about it. So, if it is done formally, either the managers are over eager to follow the policy, or something else is different this time.
Either nobody in this thread works for Intel, or you have managers who don‘t give a sh-- about clearly stated Intel policies.
So, whichever group was doing mid-year, business was not good.
Another way to view mid-year focal: healthy or growing group never do mid-year focal.
It is a "written" policy, but only year end focal formal formal and logged into Intel system.
With that said, only small portion of group doing that. And typically doing that with a reason, typically means establishing a tool that manager can easily push someone they targeted out.
It takes years to push someone out, and many times the manager already changed before they able force their target out. With mid-year focal, they can get that done by next year.
Nice fairy tale @mqc
While it may be company policy, not everyone actually gets a mid-year review. I was there 16 years and got one once in the beginning, and that was it. My managers (had 10 due to reorgs) never brought them up and I never did either since I didn't like them, even when they were good. It just wasn't my favorite thing to sit around and talk about so was happy not to receive them. I knew that if there was a problem with my performance, I'd know.
You don't even work for Intel so fck off, OP.