I got randomly selected to fill that POS out. Anyone else? I have the worst review I could on every question.
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The Real Deal survey is not the same as the Great Places to work survey. The Real Deal survey is entirely internal, results shared with ELT and the people who participate. The Great Places to Work survey is conducted/reported by Forbes for the world to see.
The survey itself explicitly says that your responses are not anonymous (they even underline those two words). I'm trying to figure out how they can call it "the confidential Real Deal survey" in the email when the survey itself say that.
You must answer 5s on everything. Consider yourself warned. Everyone will see it.
Extremely strong worded policies in the COBC are violated by managers and Cisco HR does nothibg. So I readily believe that a truthful survey could get an employee terminated. Highly morale policies are just pretty paint over rotted wood.
Same thing happened to me. Always assume your skip level manager knows precisely how you answered each survey question. Nothing is anonymous anymore.
Without being able to prove it, I have a strong suspicion that the surveys are scored automatically and fed into a spreadsheet that selects which positions are to be "restructured". Why bother with looking up names - survey ID -> employee ID -> position.
I can prove none of this, but I went from a key member of a team to being shown the door after I decided to honestly fill out one of those "anonymous" surveys.
Well, I'm not sure about the "great place to work" scam, but I've looked into this topic before. It's very, very difficult to have a non-anonymous survey in Cisco. The policy is very strongly worded (I checked it out a few years back). I think there would be terrible repercussions for any manager that did so.
No survey at Cisco is anonymous - that number at the end of the survey link? That is you and that's how they identify who filled it out.
That's the reason an email with the link to the Great Place to Work survey clearly states that you should not forward this email to anyone as the link is specific to you (hello?)
I received the same email yesterday but will wait until the last possible moment to fill it out (July 24th). I am pretty sure that I am next on the chopping block, so if I am right, I will fill out the survey accordingly. Living through this S**T every July is really tiring.
Just for your info - those surveys - aren't actually anonymous as far as folks have expressed. There have been managers who have come on and let us know that those surveys are all connected to our names and they lay people off that give poor reviews (because HR/Management feels we aren't drinking the koolaid enough if we have a poor review).
I'm not sure any of that is accurate, but I err on the side of not filling in anonymous surveys. If they actually are anonymous, no one will ever know. If they aren't - then "I was so swamped, I couldn't get to a survey."
Thank you on behalf of those of us who didn’t get the survey.