Hacker News with Generative AI: Performance Management

The Staff+ Performance Cliff (sylormiller.com)
During the last several years of mentoring other Staff+ engineers I've had many conversations with many different people that go roughly the same way:

Software Engineering, Career Development, Performance Management

10 points by sciurus 21 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees (businessinsider.com)
Microsoft is planning job cuts soon and the company is taking a harder look at underperforming employees as part of the reductions, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Microsoft, Layoffs, Business, Technology, Performance Management

21 points by 72f988bf 84 days ago | 7 comments

Performance improvement plans are on the rise (wsj.com)
In the messy business of getting rid of employees, the PIP is having a moment.

Performance Management, Human Resources, Layoffs

127 points by impish9208 123 days ago | 191 comments

Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed? (timdellinger.substack.com)
It’s probably Pareto-distributed, not Gaussian, which elucidates a few things about some of the problems that performance management processes have at large corporations, and also speaks to why it’s so hard to hire good people. Oh, and for the economists: the Marginal Productivity Theory of Wages is cleverly combined with the Gini Coefficient to arrive at the key insight.

Performance Management, Statistics, Economics, Hiring

328 points by timdellinger 127 days ago | 334 comments

Stop Ignoring Your High Performers (hbr.org)
In every organization, high performers are the driving force behind innovation, productivity, and excellence.