Comment on Google is shaking up its compensation to incentivize higher performance

tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• hades@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  google is a master of doing that

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• criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Amazon is doing the same thing.

  It’s phrased as giving top tier employees ability to penetrate bands.

  In practice you have to be rated Top Tier (which is assigned on a curve and only 5-10 percent of employees will hit) 3 years in a row. So if you have an off year or a new manager then you’re screwed. I’d wager that’s less than 1% of the company that’ll hit that.

  For everyone else it was a 10% pay cut. Woo?

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  • jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    the ability to penetrate bands

    That’s traditionally called “promotion”. So they’re not promoting employees anymore?

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    • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For engineers at least it’s always been a pain.

      L4 (the starting point) -> L5 is expected within a few years. After that it’s a fucking crapshoot. You can be stuck in L5 the rest of your career.

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      • jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I should know, I’ve been a software engineer for over 20 years and an engineering manager for over 10. I’ve promoted many engineers.

        I don’t know what L4 and L5 map to in your company, but usually the gap between levels widens the higher the level. It’s much easier to go from entry-level (recent graduate) to mid-level, than from senior to staff. The skills required to make that jump are much harder to acquire, there’s less opportunities to put them in practice and a lot more dependencies on external factors you don’t have control over.

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