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Former Yahoo Employee Challenges the Legality of Yahoo's Ranking System (nytimes.com)
whoever57 writes: A former employee of Yahoo is challenging Yahoo's performance review and termination process. The ranking system was introduced to Yahoo by Ms. Mayer on the recommendation of management consultants McKinsey & Co.. Gregory Anderson, an editor who oversaw Yahoo's autos, homes, shopping, small business and travel sites in Sunnyvale, Calif. is claiming that the ranking and termination process was flawed to the extent that the terminations were not based on performance and hence constitute mass layoffs, which require notice periods under both California and Federal law. He is also alleging gender discrimination, under which women were given preferential treatment over men in the hiring, promotions and layoff processes.
It's great to be a CEO: get paid millions, then use the company's money to bring in consultants to do your own work!
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
I had a manager who was a big fan of Jack Welch and implemented a policy to fire the bottom 10% every year. Except he didn't hire replacements and the middle soon became the new bottom. The top 10% saw the writing on the wall and vacated for greener fields elsewhere. I was the third of a dozen senior testers who left the company. The manager rode the company all the way into bankruptcy, unwilling to admit that his channeling of Jack Welch was wrong.
I've seen a couple of places do this with a forced bell curve.
They had pre-defined that you can only have so many at each level, and had to fit -- if you had 10 people, the number at each level was defined by a formula.
Which meant the ranking system couldn't say "wow, I have a bunch of good people", or "shit, I have a bunch of dullards".
Morons who manage by arbitrary metric tend to do a lousy job of it. Because apparently reality is a problem for such people.
I find that style of management pretty pathetic, because it's just drooling idiots blindly following stuff they don't understand, and can't see why it's failing them.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
Yahoo doesn't seem to exist for any reason other than to make other people rich.
They made Mark Cuban a billionaire when they bought his worthless bullshit company. They paid $30 Million for a "company" that turned out to be a 17 year old kid who wrote an app and had no interest in working for Yahoo. And since Marissa Mayer has been in charge, they've spent a few hundred million $$ buying worthless bullshit companies started by former Google employees.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat . . . .
They had pre-defined that you can only have so many at each level, and had to fit -- if you had 10 people, the number at each level was defined by a formula.
The company I worked for had a bell curve at one point. They funny thing is that the QA department as a whole did an honest assessment to fit the bell curve perfectly. The other departments, especially the department managers, all ranked themselves very highly. The executive team had a hard time bringing reality to the other departments that not everyone was a special snowflake.
Yeah, except that that's incorrect: http://www.lawfficespace.com/2013/12/yes-white-males-are-protected-class.html.
Show us a case of prosecuted Hate crime against a white male and I'll agree with you.
Foreign white male does not count in this exercise, FYI.