Another Bitter Ex-Microsoftee with an Opinion
Mar 6 2007, 9:17 PM EST
| Post edited: Mar 6 2007, 9:17 PM EST
I'm a 10 yr MSFT veteran who spent 5 of those years in management. I got screwed plenty of times by the stack ranking system before I leaned how to manipulate it by playing the office politics game. I actually even achieved the coveted 4.5 review one year which meant I was #1 on my team but there were plenty of other years that I worked just as hard and had fantastic results but it "wasn't my turn".
After being promoted to management my opinion of the company continually declined as I was forced time and time again to lie to employees or provide weak excuses to fit them into the right spot in the stack rank. This is an incredibly flawed system and no matter how HR chooses to dress it, it won't change until there is a serious shake up among all levels of management.
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