Re:Google Sold Its Engineers on Management (2013)
by takenpilot on Thursday August 31, 2023 @09:21PM
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I'm an ex-google employee laid off as part of the 12000.
To answer your question, basically not at all. Half a year before the layoffs, they explicitly consolidated power towards your direct managers around the assignment of work and especially quarterly and yearly assessment.
Not just toward managers in general -- before that point there was a consolidation of power towards managers in general over the years, but luckily a group of manager's peers would balance out or question any extreme examples, which moderated a lot of what can sometimes go wrong.
But right before the layoffs the system was changed to have an explicit emphasis on your direct manager.
To answer your question, basically not at all. Half a year before the layoffs, they explicitly consolidated power towards your direct managers around the assignment of work and especially quarterly and yearly assessment.
Not just toward managers in general -- before that point there was a consolidation of power towards managers in general over the years, but luckily a group of manager's peers would balance out or question any extreme examples, which moderated a lot of what can sometimes go wrong.
But right before the layoffs the system was changed to have an explicit emphasis on your direct manager.