So many people get hung up on a low ranking thinking it means they are a bad engineer. All it means is the other engineers were better than you. It is relative not absolute. If you are part of a group of really good engineers and are ranked lower than they are it doesn’t mean you are a bad engineer just not as good as they are.
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Ranking is not a reward system it is a retention system. They rank highly (and pay highly) the ones that they don't want to leave. The others than they are fine if they leave get ranked low and paid low. Simple system. How big of a piece of the pie you get depends on who they "think" is growing the business and making them money.
More cheap c_rap from the corporate trolls.
“You’re not a bad engineer. You’re just not good enough for us.”
But your a-s will still get put on a PIP and shown the door.
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Your lecture on life is so funny. Sounds like you have no exposure. Even service companies have better system than EM. Instead wasting time here why don’t you do a study on how other companies do it.
This is the most unfair system I have seen. Technical staff doing three people’s work ranked lower than some brown nosers who show up in office less than eight hours. There were three people like that in my group never see any work product from them. But excellent a-s kisser 😊 to be successful keep kissing and say lot of words doesn’t have to mean anything. Make meeting longer by asking silly questions just to be visible.
I guarantee you there is no perfectly fair system anywhere. How fair is fair enough? How do we measure it? This is called life.
Ever consider that being likeable is important at work? MIND BLOWN!
The ranking system if FU’ed! It’s got little to do with performance and more about likability.
Those considering XOM as an employer should RUN… fast.
Absolutely not true. I was told by my manager the reason I dropped in ranking was because the dh said I was making too much money. He went on to tell me there’s no way I could be ranked at the top again as long as that dh was here in a gulf coast site. I remedied that situation by leaving.
@OP - Well done ! And just how long did it take you to suddenly wake up to that pearl of wisdom ? Anyone who didn’t already know this probably deserves to be NSI’d. Assuming that doesn’t refer to many people at all, it’s the unfairness of the system that’s getting everyone upset. As @xdv wrote, your job performance actually means very little in your ranking. People are being NSI’d for a variety of other, political reasons.
Every single company o have worked for has a system for promotions and raises that have the exact same problems.
If you believe your rank reflects your actual job performance then I'm guessing you're just pretty new around here.
Your rank reflects a combination of your management's overall perception of you, your age (older and longer tenured employees get knocked down in the system for a variety of reasons unrelated to performance), and if you are "sponsored" and therefore marked for inevitable success in the system..
Actual job performance factors in, but it's maybe the third or fourth thing on the list. This system rewards gamesmanship and luck, and tends to discourage hard work and innovation over time once people get wise to the fact that ranking at EM is both a political tool used by management to promote themselves and their friends, and used to cap the pay of the rank-and-file in the mid to late career. It's overall a drag on the actual performance of the organization, but one management is willing to live with because it helps them distribute salaries the way they want, PIP employees when they want to drop headcount, and pay themselves while simultaneously patting themselves on the back.
Raises and RSU (restricted stock units) are directly related to your rank that coupled with the risk of PIP should matter to everyone
Actually I was told once in a feedback session that I was the top performer in my rank group but due to political reasons I could not be ranked there.
Being ranked low does not actually mean that anyone in your rank group performs better than you.
That’s exactly the problem. We hire the best and you can have a really talented pool of folks but the forced ranking puts some at the bottom and some at the top. And this matters when you have a workforce reduction/layoff disguised under a PIP program and PIPs approaching 8-10% annually.
Management and lack of vision has put the company in this position not the workers. The company never ran lean especially on the Projects and US side. COVID was just a good cover to shift the blame and transition to low cost countries. How many folks are getting PIPed (separated) in India, Malaysia, etc….
Management has no credibility. Do you know how to tell they are lying…when their lips move.