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A comment on Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers. Parent comment
I would imagine that nearly every change in performance review structure at nearly every company is unpopular:
People who were let go (or who left voluntarily of low bonuses/raises/refreshes) aren't there to complain!
Everyone who is left, who knew how to game the system (or was so good they didn't need to) now has to optimize to a completely new metric.
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I would imagine that nearly every change in performance review structure at nearly every company is unpopular:
People who were let go (or who left voluntarily of low bonuses/raises/refreshes) aren't there to complain!
Everyone who is left, who knew how to game the system (or was so good they didn't need to) now has to optimize to a completely new metric.