Structural problems prevents most of them to do their best, why cisco doesn't review.
Juniper never did performance reviews.
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@8vqk+1jsSoCVZ you clearly don't work for Cisco. No performance reviews here. Only People Deal.
Every company does performance reviews
Stack ranking came from John Chambers’ idol Jack Welch at GE in the 1980s.
Cisco’s management is both untrained and extremely incompetent so resources are almost never optimally deployed and with no useful experience of their own they can’t possibly provide a meaningful evaluation. Dashboards measure pointless metrics (“this person is a top performer! They average 20 comments per code review!” Too bad they are all asking for whitespace changes that aren’t consistent with the coding standards and therefore all rejected. Four checkins a week, every last one of which breaks the nightly build and even when fixed by others who get beaten for taking the time to do the builds and automated tests required by ISO9000 don’t actually do anything useful? It’s promotion time for you!) and with rare exception that’s how you are evaluated by senior management. The result is the biggest scr3wups are rewarded and actually start to see themselves as top performers when the company would have been better off if they were deadwood.
As others have mentioned, Cisco doesn't have formal performance reviews anymore......that stopped a long time ago for legal reasons (ie.....if there are no performance reviews, there is no paper trail an employee can lean on during a layoff.....sneaky).
But oh yeah, you bet they stack rank. When I was ushered out a number of years ago, it was called "9 block", and was done behind closed doors with no paper trail. A manager accidentally mentioned it to me and then quickly shutup. But at the end of the day, it is still a popularity contest and relationship based. Really sad.
Stack ranking at Cisco started a lot earlier than that. I remember doing it for the first JC layoff.
Stank ranking came from that HR clown Brian Schipper. Did that at Microsoft, and brought the disease over to Cisco around 2010. Microsoft was smart enough to un-do the damage. Problem is when stack-ranking is in the open, it means for me to succeed (look good) my team-members have to fail. Results in backstabbing and grandstanding. Stack ranking probably still happens, but it is no longer in the open or talked about like before.
But we sure as he-l still stack rank everybody.
Cisco did away with P/Rs years ago.
I review my direct reports secretly. Nothing is written down officially. I keep a red book at home for my notes. I never bring that red book to work. About 60% of the time, I get orders from high-ups on who to chop even though in my red book they are top performers. ifykyk
Cisco has not done formal performance reviews in at least a decade.
Cisco is in a managed decline and quietly laying off full-time employees and rehiring through contract agencies. Strategically move employees to projects without funding, and quietly axe them to avoid bad PR.