tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post109547089597967666..comments2024-03-29T04:53:26.072-07:00Comments on Mini-Microsoft: Random Mid-September CommentsWho da'Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18205453956191063442noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-1095773038178317572004-09-21T06:23:00.000-07:002004-09-21T06:23:00.000-07:00Nice template. Can i have a copy ?
- MayureshNice template. Can i have a copy ?<br /><br />- MayureshMayuresh Kaduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16818738067919490566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-1095533017267140502004-09-18T11:43:00.000-07:002004-09-18T11:43:00.000-07:00Following up on a comment above... Do any of the ...Following up on a comment above... Do any of the review system revampings really change much? <br /><br />The system has been "changing" constantly for years, but much of the change is in the typography of the forms. <br /><br />The amount of bureacratic gristle over which each review has to slide has, however, gone up, and so the August review now starts at the beginning of June, and it seems like Hallowe'en is barely past when the February review starts (for those low-leveled enough to have two reviews per year rather than one, which means almost everyone).<br /><br />When Comp2000 was announced during the summer of 1999, it seemed clear on paper that it was going to provide placebo promotions of "half as far each" that could be given out somewhat more often than old promotions.<br /><br />While the distance of each promotional jump shrunk, the promotion frequency didn't really increase. Level 12, where people typically used to peak after enough years at the company, was expanded out to three levels (63, 64, and 65) rather than two levels, as each of 10 and 11 had, thereby providing even more room for largely fake non-progress in the former level 12 stagnocline.<br /><br />Putting aside the numerical quaintness of taking a leveling system that used to run from 10 (or 9) through 15, and replacing it with one that ran from 57 through 73 (these really are close to the actual endpoint values of the new post-Comp2000 scheme!), the return of the salad days that the beneficiaries of Comp2000 may have hoped for never happened as the stock stagnated and the macro picture for the economy and the industry degraded.<br /><br />The habits of old, coupled with the poor job market since 2000, created in management a lack of any motivation of imperative to promote or up-compensate any faster than they used to... So the bottom line of Comp2000 was a bunch of 15% to 30% raises handed out, across the company, on a one-time basis.<br /><br />The "Partner Grants" program is worth some additional examination as well. If there are frustrated level 59s through 62s (the old 10s and 11s), who still do most of the code-writing and debugging spadework company-wide, who thought they weren't appreciated before, one can only imagine what they would have thought if more of them had known more about the nature of the Partner Grants (beyond the fragmentary stories from the WSJ, which were all that most of the rank and file saw).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-1095526583746834272004-09-18T09:56:00.000-07:002004-09-18T09:56:00.000-07:00Yes and yes!Yes and yes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-1095492682697443572004-09-18T00:31:00.000-07:002004-09-18T00:31:00.000-07:00Yeah, let's revamp it *again*. That's what, five t...Yeah, let's revamp it *again*. That's what, five times in three years?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-1095483438504933292004-09-17T21:57:00.000-07:002004-09-17T21:57:00.000-07:00I can't tell you how much I agree with you on the ...I can't tell you how much I agree with you on the review thing. I initially worked harder and then smarter and finally harder and smarter. But I am yet to see any kind of pat on the back. I would have left the company long time ago but the only thing that is holding me back is the kind of work that challenges me every day.<br />You know what woudld be nice: Asking the managers to write the review before the stack ranking. In my team it happens after and I find really silly stupid reasons to put me in a bucket. I wish this entire review thing gets revamped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com