Is 10% actually fairly high?
I read that as "if you hire two teams of 5 people, on average one person on one of them ends up not performing and getting PIP'd.
That seems... not crazy to me?
I read that as "if you hire two teams of 5 people, on average one person on one of them ends up not performing and getting PIP'd.
That seems... not crazy to me?
Imagine trying to build a team and good culture when someone on your team is put into a performance plan/fired every year.
Now add in unreasonable demands from management on delivery dates, churn from people trying to work at a company that doesn't fire one of their coworkers every year, and a lack of new hire support because if you don't bring your new hires up to speed very fast, they're more likely to get fired than you/your friends are. Also, those new hires get paid more than you do if they were brought in at the same level because they're "bar raising" and you aren't.
"About 10% of Amazonians receive a PIP.
This is fairly high; at other companies, 0.5 to 3 percent of employees receive a PIP."
Seems to be 3 - 20x the average. That's high.
And using invalid assumptions, if the probability that you will get PIP'd every year is 10%, assuming it's just a random dart shot, that means the likelihood you'll get PIP'd at some point in the first 4 years is 35%.