Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system
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A recent staff survey by Google showed some 53 percent of the 163,000+ workforce felt that bi-annual reviews are "time well spent", according to [1]The Information , yet the naysayers are being heard clearly.
In a meeting yesterday, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google partner Alphabet, told the organization he wants to give more workers a sense of achievement, while telling them "most Googlers are doing great work."
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The Register has asked Google to comment.
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The replacement system that kicks in this month is branded by the company as Googler Reviews and Development (GRAD) and will not require the same level of preparation for managers and their teams as the one it replaces.
Google [5]blogged yesterday that the performance management and promotion process had included "formal reviews and raising" done twice yearly.
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"Our People team at Google worked with leaders and partners across the company globally to see how we could evolve these processes to help our employees do the best work of their career.
"We looked at everything, starting with employee feedback, as well as research, industry best practices, and all that we've learned about how to design processes for fairness and consistency."
Under the new system, managers will provide "feedback and check-ins throughout the year" and one of these will be the formal one "focused on learning and career development at Google."
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"Performance ratings will happen once a year and our new rating scale will reflect the fact that most Googler's deliver significant value every day."
Promotions will still happen "twice a year" it added.
[8]IBM manager had to make one person redundant from choice of two, still bungled it and got firm done for unfair dismissal
[9]You're in charge of change, and now you need to talk about DevOps hater Robin
[10]Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink
[11]Oracle gives HR tool to track your fitness
The Great Resignation, which began in spring last year and continued until the fall when the quit rate in the US climbed to a two-decade peak, is forcing companies to consider ways to retain valued staff. This also includes giving staff some flexibility in where they work and hours that are set.
Meta also moved to one annual review last year, as The Information highlighted, but the trend to cut back on these formal processes perhaps isn't as new as big tech might think.
According to Deloitte's 2015 survey, [12]Global Human Capital Trends [PDF] – yeah the title made us feel a bit queasy too – companies have increasingly burdensome HR processes.
"Adobe found its performance management process took almost 1.8 million person-hours per year to complete. Deloitte itself found that its performant management process consumer close to 2 million hours."
In 2015, Deloitte had 225,000 employees worldwide. In [13]calendar Q1 2022 [PDF], Google had 163,906. ®
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[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-overhauls-performance-review-system-after-employee-criticism
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[8] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/ibm_unfair_dismissal_birmingham/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2018/05/14/devops_change_barriers/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2016/07/27/citibank_network_wipe_man_jailed/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2014/11/10/oracle_gives_hr_tool_to_track_your_fitness/
[12] https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/co/Documents/human-capital/Relieving%20the%20overwhelmed%20organization.pdf
[13] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d9e9d97
[14] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Just another excuse
not to give anyone outside the "C" level execs a pay rise.
Just another day raking it in for the 0.1%.
hate them
what a total waste of time. Embarrassing. Hurtful. Stressful. Darwinian. Only the most persuasive survive. Large employers only run them to quantify who to lay off with some data that they think can stand up in a tribunal. No other reason. Same for 'objectives'. If you do your job and your manager is happy there doesn't need to be anything else. Its when your manager isn't happy that they want data to kill you with.
Re: hate them
> Deloitte itself found that its performance management process consumed close to 2 million hours - In 2015, Deloitte had 225,000 employees worldwide.
10 hours a year per employee seems quite reasonable to collect and review evidence to justify promotions and pay rises worth thousands.
I normally don't put much effort in to playing the game myself, as I'm happy at my current level (and it doesn't make much difference anyway).
Come into My Parlours said the Spider to the Fly. IT has Vast Rooms for Many Mansions to Store.
In a meeting yesterday, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google partner Alphabet, told the organization he wants to give more workers a sense of achievement, while telling them "most Googlers are doing great work."
The Register has asked Google to comment.
Virtual Presentations and AILive Demonstrations with the Creative Talents Provided to/for/from the Great Works the Very Best of AlphaBetAI Googlers are doing would be an Awesome AIDevelopment .... Permitting the Trawling and Trailing and Trialing of Enlightening Memes/SMARTR Opinioned Bodies/Almighty Thoughts for Creation and Destruction, Good and Evil.
If Alphabet and Google are into that Field of Endeavour for Valour, that would surely be akin to them doing God's work?
A good question to ask them is ..... Do You Like To Dabble and Dither in the Field or Dibble and Driver Ever Further and Deeper and Higher for the Blessed Relief and Release and Reward Great Works Completed Deliver?
If the answer is Yes to the last question is the answer to the first question also true.
If the answers was to be a No, would they now like to Change IT and Profess Yes because of the Extremely Strange Changed Circumstances, both for and from the Immaculate Source Far Beyond Any Normal Command and Control introducing All Currently Known About All of the Above that they too are now privy to ?
Re: Come into My Parlours said the Spider to the Fly. IT has Vast Rooms for Many Mansions to Store.
That is the best response to a review I have seen in a long time. Have an extra week off.
Turning upon their own...
I guess someone decided that they weren't gathering enough data about their own people...
Seems I cannot turn on Linkedin at all the past year without seeing loads of new hire posts at Google, it seems the bar has dropped significantly whilst the company hasn't released anything significant in product form for years. Really just name brand recognition, and the word in the industry is that the company has dropped offers well below the competition.
For anyone working there I would focus on your transferrable skills because once word gets out idiots are working there that name brand recognition won't mean as much on the resume.
Any company...
...with a dedicated HR Department, is too large for me to work in. When companies hire HR staff, they are shifting their focus from the employees to the company.