I gave them best score possible. All 1s. 23 points total.
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I know the MD in HR that the poster is referencing and yes, it is one person.
just assume its not anonymous... like your health surveys to try and sweep in extra HSA dollars.. i would be skeptical
Managers are pressuring reps to fill these out positively because it impacts them which is BS. If the question is how is the EC doing I’m not going to give them a positive score
I have more confidence in a Russian election than the results of the Glint survey.
This survey is intended to help understand how individuals, teams and leadership feel about engagement and take action.
Engagement is NOT one MD in HR (seriously, that person should look in a mirror) and is the entire team.
If you’re rating 1s, it tells the team more about you and potentially that you may be better off somewhere else. Otherwise, take accountability and help where you can to improve it. If this upsets you, you’re probably not a great team member that is helping improve engagement.
Agree that 1s are not as clear as not submitting anything, but I appreciate where that commenter was coming from.
Let's be blunt. Almost all of us would be better off elsewhere. But there is a clear message in 1s or not responding. It's a vote of no confidence. And since the answers are ignored, manipulated, recontextualized and used for retaliation it makes little difference. No improvements have from from the surveys.
There's no potential to improve engagement. And you can't tell if anyone is or isn't helpful when the macro goals are to suppress and ignore input while increasing attrition.
Read that again. The goal isn't conducive to a positive outcome.
Lastly, it very well could be a single MD. It could be the individual. Or both. But given the systemic failings of the corporation, the intent behind said failings, and the lack of active listening it seems very inappropriate to armchair assess the commenter or chastise them from afar.
Prepare for the trolls to downvote the he-l out of the response below this one.
This survey is intended to help understand how individuals, teams and leadership feel about engagement and take action.
Engagement is NOT one MD in HR (seriously, that person should look in a mirror) and is the entire team.
If you’re rating 1s, it tells the team more about you and potentially that you may be better off somewhere else. Otherwise, take accountability and help where you can to improve it. If this upsets you, you’re probably not a great team member that is helping improve engagement.
I wonder though if they have been using these surveys under the guise of improving "things," but really just using them in working with their consulting firm to gauge attrition numbers, while reading this site to see if they need to dig deeper to get the attrition numbers they need or whatever the "goal" of the month is.
Why fill it out? If you give negative feedback, they'll just tell you how YOU can improve your company outlook, not what THEY can do to improve.
↑THIS
I worked in a completely different field and business before coming here. When feedback about engagement/company climate came back with hostile/areas for improvement, we never shifted the blame to the subordinates. Leaders led there. They took the feedback and worked on improving. Here, however, the "leaders" shift the blame to subordinates and expect us to fix the issue. It is ridiculous, lazy, and just sad.
Why fill it out? If you give negative feedback they'll just tell you how YOU can improve your company outlook, not what THEY can do to improve.
I'm the only one reporting to my manager in my location. Because managers receive a location roll-up I'm damned if I don't fill it out and I'm damned if I fill it out honestly.
Just don't fill it out. If pressured, acknowledging what they know becomes an opportunity to highlight that feedback, if inclined to be constructive, would not be anonymous and any feedback would be contaminated by that fact.
Some may think this is too forward. I'm not suggesting you go out of your way. Rather, not answering is simple. You only need to acknowledge it if confronted which makes the case that it isn't anonymous. Checkmate.
I'm the only one reporting to my manager in my location. Because managers receive a location roll-up I'm damned if I don't fill it out and I'm damned if I fill it out honestly.
My offer is this…nothing
A MD in HR, let’s call him Mr. Newman, spends all of his free time (which is a lot) trying to find out who gives negative ratings. He then uses that information to retaliate against the reviewer and their supervisor. What is completely lost on him is he has created the complete disengagement of his department and takes zero accountability. If this happens in HR I can only imagine what happens in the rest of the firm.
My micro-manger is begging the team to take these surveys. I will give her 1 she deserves it.
They know whether you participate or not and if you do participate they can identify you. Like someone said before the surveys ARE NOT anonymous!!!! I would forgo this BS
Sad these surveys will probably make solo onshore devs look bad I'm sure they are struggling. The worst part is they will probably look at this as the solo devs problem instead of a team problem. Honestly we need more individuals with development experience instead of the joke project managers we hire these days with no software development background. Like some of the project managers are stuck at schwab cuz their role is useless outside of schwab. Thanks pm's for producing trash. Most pm's can't even identify a good software dev. They just don't have what it takes to lead these projects correctly. Our pm is truly useless
Do not do the surveys if you are the only onshore dev on your team. I repeat do not take the surgery. They will find out it is you and punishment will be served. Things will not change.
It’s just a we-pon that leadership uses to punish people. Be careful with it.
Proudly admit I have never and shall never participate in the Glint or any other survey.
They aren’t anonymous, the questions are absurd and no positive change has resulted from any of them. When someone dares to offer feedback, managers tweak the response and question to something different. For example, another team responded overwhelmingly that there was issue X with manager Y. Everyone redefined things so the question meant something different and was corporate level and not line manager.
Like last time, I deleted it. I refuse to participate in the Glint survey any longer.