Don't forget to fill out your common review to highlight all your accomplishments over the year and also submit your peer reviews. If you go above and beyond and are a high performer management will reward you with a low merit score of a 2 or 3 and give you no bonus only to give 3 and 4 scores to those who kiss their behinds and are their favorites. Then place you on a CAP if your lucky only to lay you off. Also, please fill out your survey as they care about your feedback
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@wy you Indians BLOW.
Can confirm! Last year my manager was sharing his screen to walk some of us through the self-eval process. It was hilarious because you could see on the screen that he already assigned numerical ratings to his direct reports. We just pretended we didn’t see it lol
India is on the way out. Much like Tata is firing tons of their own for Filipino labor at a fraction of the cost, so is Optum moving the jobs to these islands throughout 2026.
@wy Just wait until AI takes over your position.
Sounds like a whole bunch of succers are complaining in a union conference. LOL, however we Indians already owned your union.
um 3 and 4 rating are the same now meets expectations. 5 you will never get that so dont worry about it
The Common Review has always been a farce, beginning with the "Self Evaluation" for which we must translate accomplishments into CLL terminology and address "group goals" that have little to no connection to our day-to-day work. Then pray a few colleagues will bother to provide accurate feedback. 3 months later your manager will ignore most of what you wrote and rate your performance with scores that always average 3. Finally they will announce a tiny bump in pay, most of which will be in the form of a one-time bonus rather than a salary increase. Meanwhile the manager's pals who speak in platitudes and do minimal work will be well rewarded.
@d0 correct, managers rate their employees and submit that rating before any self evaluation is completed. What an employee writes on themselves has zero impact on how they are rated. Also, favoritism plays a major role in those getting a 4 or 5 rating. The more you kiss a-s, the better your rating. Therefore if not mandatory, skip writing your self evaluation or spending a lot of time giving detail. It has zero impact. I know this for a fact as I was a manager and yes, did the same thing. Unfortunately for me, I was laid off and after trying over 100 times, I cannot get rehired despite having 4 and 5 rating reviews for 15+ years.
hope everyone here gets exceeds expectations so we can all celebrate our 1.5% raises together
Not planning to write a self reflection this year. I could not find any documentation anywhere stating it is required. And I hope to be RIFd on 10/30 anyway.
I remember fighting to get two employees a $.48/hour raise. After the security incident I would have felt better and more justified telling them we lost business and I couldn't give them anything. But having to tell them that "yeah, you busted your a s s all year long and here's what we think of that effort" as a manager made me feel terrible.
So glad I'm gone from there.
your rating was predetermined when you got your evaluation in february. Nothing you do changes that same ole popularity contest applies. Meanwhile managers are too busy playing in AI to save themselves
Funny enough, your scores have already been decided for most departments last week. Directors in some orgs are required to have it all ready before any peer review or self review is even submitted. It begs the question, why bother wasting time on them if ultimately they are meaningless unless there is an extreme grievance.
This year my manager asked for 6 people per person for peer reviews, that’s a ton of wasted time.
All of these are put into the shredder. No one I know bothers. Huge waste of time that at best will be held as a grudge against you or at best skimmed and deleted.
Bell curve in effect. It'll be mandated that X percent have to get 2s
So refreshing that all you bobble heads are finally getting the picture. If you want to send a clear picture to the board and to every regulatory agency that requires the survey , you would boycott the survey. Don’t fill it out. That would put the corporation in a jam.
With the majority of IT leaders being Indians, you know they will give higher merit scores to other Indians. Nepotism