If performance is not a factor then why are we working hard? Corrupted managers can just use this angle as a way to get rid of hard workers who are not part of their inner circle without any consequences because they can just give you the bs reason of "this is not based on performance and purely business".
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Bruh, welcome to the game of life. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Cisco is not unique. Any company, any profession, any place in life is about who you know.
So many folks posting here are so gullible and naive it's almost nauseating. Do you think LRs at Twitter, FB, Amazon and others were all strictly based on employee performance? It's just brutal economic maths with a pinch of human relations saving this or that employee. Don't talk corruption and other nonsense. You are just a number in a global corporation. Just like I am.
If you’re all such great performers go out and form a competing company. Surely you all know the one true way and therefore can’t possibly fail. Since performance is so easily quantified your reporting structure should be self forming and self evident and everyone will work together effectively. Best of all, you will all be well known heroes in your industry!
A technical CEO would fix this
Nothing will change until CEO is fired
What makes you think a new CEO will fix it? LR's were not based on performance under Chambers either. The only thing where "performance" was even a factor was the stacked rankings, and those were still based on relationships. They just had to work harder at manufacturing documentation to base the poor rankings on and put you on a PIP and then force you out, where now it's just "bang, you're gone".
I watched a guy who lead a project that never met it's goals, was over budget, behind schedule, and didn't work, but he was a "top performer" and someone who was a technical lead for a different project that finished ahead of schedule, on budget, and fully delivered on it's goals was put on a PIP because they "didn't manage the project to the director's expectations". How is a technical lead responsible for managing a project that has a project manager assigned to it?
It's based upon your level of drinking the w0k3n3ss koolaid whether you catch an LR. That and certain "quotas".
Nothing will change until CEO is fired
Same yearly formula since 2011. Effects devastating to employees morale, no recovering from this sinking.
No sh-t
Cisco is a relationship... not performance based company. Work at a startup if you care about performance.
You better believe it. Catching on now. Or if you are expensive.