Does Oracle stack rank employees for performance evaluations or how are they done?
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In Support the worst part is You are stacked ranked against everyone in manager chain. So your product may have less volume, etc. but yet you get compared as if all the same. Makes people do shady things to climb on top. More a competition than a team. Microsoft learned years ago this is bad for customer, employee and business. Oracle may be starting to see that too.
I'm in Oracle Support and can 100% confirm we are stack ranked. Our manager talks about it in staff meetings fairly frequently. Basically, you don't want to be at the bottom of the list as they are forced to pull names (usually 1 or 2) from the bottom to submit to HIS boss (director level) for RIF notices.
They also rank the confidential employee survey.
Years ago there was forced ranking. Managers could have only rank so many people as exceeding expectations, rank so many for meets expectations, so many that were ranked as needing improvement, etc. I imagine that within those rankings there were sub-rankings. It probably still goes on, but they just aren't as open about it.
Nothing new here. This happens every year.
M3 manager post is the truth, at least as it was explained to me when I got the ax (note: turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to my career, btw).
I knew my mgr from when they were an IC on my team. After the dust settled they told me pretty much what M3 said. Had zero to do with your review, your numbers and decided at least 3 to 4 levels above the mgr level.
Layoffs as practiced by companies these days are a scam to manipulate markets and stock and frighten their workforce into compliance. Allows them to be sloppy in recruiting and retention because hey, you can release anyone you want for any reason in bulk or just a few, any damn time you want.
If you work for an international org like Oracle, you know how different that is in Europe.
Watch where and how you spend your loyalty capital!
I was an M3 manager for many years. I was regularly told to stack rank my staff. That said, not once did I ever have any input whatsoever into layoff decisions, and people laid off didn't always match my stack ranking. I was never given any rationale for who was chosen, and I always had to do the dirty work on RIF day. To top it off, I was then told to "figure it out" in terms of how to deal with lost resources and talent and no change in deliverables. I'm so glad to be out of that he-l hole!
Does Oracle secretly stack rank employees?
You must be new here.
Yes, everyone is stack-ranked.
Based on your question you're most certainly ranked lower than any of your peers.
Expect to be whacked soon.
HTH!
Ask your manager when the last TRB was. It's a 9-Box exercise, and yes, it can be used to RIF.
Secretly?
No, it’s wide open. In Support they absolutely stack rank and make no secret about it.
I suspect that Oracle does not require the management to do anything. Most likely just up to the individual manager. I suspect my managers mostly rewarded the suckups and like-minded corrupt individuals that worked for them.
Most managers keep a running stacked ranking of their teams, required or not. It’s the basis for distributing comp and determining who gets cut.
Based on purely favouritism :)