Re:Meta Tells Managers Promotions Will Be Few and Far Between
by konschubert on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:29AM
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I think GPs point is that evaluate(sum(impact of ICs) can be evaluated by the manager of the person-to-be-promoted.
My concern with this is: How do you correct for luck/easy tasks?
It’s hard to compare the performance of departments unless you have been inside and seen the challenges they’ve been facing.
No, I’m not. I’m arguing that it’s unwise to trust someone to do an evaluation who has a personal stake in the result of that evaluation.
Looking at how well a team works together to advance company goals is an important factor in any evaluation system, but using that as the only factor in a manager’s evaluation is as shortsighted as evaluating a software engineer solely on how many LOC they produced.
In practice, overall team performance should be a factor in IC evaluations as it’s reflective of various hard-to-quantify properties of the team members. It should also be a somewhat larger factor in a manager’s evaluation, with the weight between IC and team performance shifting from mostly-IC at the bottom of the hierarchy to mostly-team at the C-suite level.