Software Engineer

Move out , if you have trust in your skills , move out . World out there is big

Your manager don't need 100% performance that's the problem.

Software Developer

Just achieve your targets - that’s it. I stopped giving 100% and I make sure my target is achieved weekly / monthly/ annually. 
 Started preparing for PMP and will be looking for a change soon. 
 Learned this the hard way.

Program Manager

What to do if after giving your 100%, still there is no appreciation and no good feedbacks?

No Appreciation from Managers

External Audit

No Appreciation from Managers- Grapevine

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I feel no appreciation, no value even after overworking for months and even weekends sometimes. I see other clients or friends in other companies getting atleast things like team outings and all but here not even a well done is given. Anyone else?

No value in this

Data engineer

Is 10% appraisal good for top performers or is the company lowballing?

What is your appraisal % ?

We've seen stories and videos of employees receiving appraisals from their managers. (Of course, more of hatred)

Now, as a manager, how did you prepare yourself to share such feedbacks, both positive and negative. Did your team respect you less or more after appraisals?

There'd be employees who deserve more but due to higher management restrictions, they're unable to get the deserving number. How do you prepare in such situations?

How were positive appraisals delivered?

Share your experiences from your professional journey.

As a manager, how do you share appraisal feedback?

Growth Manager

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Hi folks, I’m grossly underpaid and my work output + impact warrants a promotion and a fat hike imo. But being told that this is not possible mid year. What can I do to make it happen? Haven’t had a proper conversation regarding this with manager yet.

How to ask for a promotion/hike mid year?

Product Manager

📣 Hey everyone! 📣

I'm gearing up for my first chat about getting a raise at work, and I could really use some advice from those who've been there before! 🤔💼

Here's what's up:
- It's my first time talking about a raise.
- My boss seems happy with how I'm doing.
- I've been doing software engineering for about two years.
- I used to make more money at my old job.
- Last year, I was between jobs when it was time for raises.

So, how do I make sure I get the best deal? Any tips for talking about money in these meetings? Share your thoughts, and let's figure out how to get that raise! 🚀💰 #HelpMeGetARaise #SoftwareProsAdvice

First Salary Hike

Consultant

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

This year, the increments in my company were fairly good, with an average of 21% and the highest being 30% in my team of 10 people. The average rating was 4/5. Given the current market situation, these increments can be considered decent. However, despite these figures, none of the team members seem satisfied. Last year’s increments were better, but still, this year’s numbers aren’t bad.

Considering our positive company culture and manageable work pressure, I’m curious to understand why the expectation might be so skewed. How much of an increment is generally enough to make employees happy? Were the increments really that bad, or is there something else at play here?

How much increment is enough?

Hey Viners, would like to know your prespective on the situation that if you face a bunch of incompetent colleagues who dont take their work seriously and the manager constantly asks you to maintain quality because of your seniority and you end up cleaning their work, how do you handle it ?

Few Incompetent colleagues

Create a toxic work environment for them that they leave themselves ☺️

Corporate Strategist

So, my boss is an absolutely lovely person, and is the best boss I've had so far. Not to brag, but I'm also the best performer in my team, by a mile. So, while I do get my pats on the back, I'm also rewarded with more and more work. I love, atleast so far, what I do, so I didn't mind taking up more work, because I learnt a lot in the process too, and it helped my hone my craft better.

Cut to now, I'm losing interest in work. Don't feel like taking up any new work, no matter how exciting the brief, or how great its potential.

I feel like I'm burnt out. And majorly demotivated.

What makes it worse is seeing this other member in my team chill the absolute fk out. He's hardly even given any important projects because of what a waste resource he is.

I've also just been promoted. So, I'm not sure if I should share what's on my mind with my boss.

My mind says I shouldn't, but my heart says it should be fine.

What should I do about:
1. Telling or not telling my boss what I'm going through (because I'm scared if it'll come back to bite my later)
2. Me feeling extremely burnt out and demotivated.

Drop in a joke or two, if you want, but please drop in a serious and genuine reply too.

Should I tell me boss I'm burnt out?

No, please dont in my opinion. Are you not taking leave’s? Please take leaves. 
  
 It might be contradictory on what i said but when it comes to bosses, it better not to talk about burning out and demotivated etc. 
  
 If you still want to do, sound as positive as you can be.  
 Boss sab ka bharosa nahi yaar.

Marketing Creative

What’s the best way to approach a performance review?

What to do when you are not satisfied with your current salary because you feel the quality and quantity of work you do is not worth it and your supervisor is playing around and not in favour of giving any financial growth even after good performance and you are not getting any opportunity outside having around 9yrs of experience in HR Operations. You feel very low and disappointed working like this. He is taking advantage of everything, not letting you apply for internal job openings also. What to do in this case?

Not happy with the salary

Human Resources

I have been working as a full-stack developer past 2 years and now in onsite since 3 months. Based on my performance they were happy and called me onsite since our project is going live in 3-4 months. 

I have been completing whatever tasks have been given to me and asking for more tasks once I complete them. I did work on weekends and completed the work irrespective of the tight deadlines. Now the manager communicates to me via a senior person that my performance is going negative out of a sudden and I didn't meet their expectations and need to work more proactively. I repeatedly asked him based on what parameters they came to this conclusion, he simply said take this as a positive feedback and work towards it, without telling the actual reason for this review.

What should I do : take a release while the live implementation because this might affect my career prospects.

Negative review for performance

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

In the recent performance review, shitty manager gave bad review.  Though worked very hard the last whole year. Brought this to skips  notice, but he's not ready to hear what I have to say, just speaks what  manager has to say ( probably not to hamper his relationship with the  manager). This manager is very careless and has no idea what's going on  in the team.. Other colleagues who did less than equal to work as mine  got better rating than me due to their manager being good.   

Lost all hope and motivation to work. What should I do?? If I quit  now the market conditions are too bad. Did not learn anything much in  this shit company..   

Looking for advice..

Bad rating inspite of doing good work. Next steps?

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

For the past few days, my manager isn't involving me in any major work. I send my work, but he doesn't review it and leaves it seen zoned.

He's been giving negative feedback as well. What should I do, I have just graduated this year and am afraid that I might not do well going ahead too. I'm working as an APM.

He even remarked that he wouldn't have hired a candidate, had he solved the problem the way I did.

Could anyone suggest what to do? I'm feeling very tensed.

Manager not satisfied with work

Is it advisable to give feedback to your manager ?

Feedback to your manager in 1:1?

As the title suggests, does it make sense to talk about a colleagues’s inability to deliver to my manager. The colleague’s incompetence to take ownership is very evident now to everyone and the manager is not taking any steps on it. Others have to basically cleanup and babysit him. Worse part, this colleague gets paid the highest in the team. At this point it’s just breeding resentment across the team. How to handle this situation? Any tips. Early stage startup, the manager is part of the founding team.

Should you confront your manager about a colleague’s incompetence?

Do not get involved. Try to minimise your own additional work due to that colleague. In one-to-one meeting with manager, let the manager know. Use the words: I just wanted to bring your attention to one more matter. Then describe the challenges that you face. Not your team. Do not gang up, do not conspire or collaborate. Do not mention about how other colleagues feel the same way. If your manager takes a negative opinion of these activity, you'll be fucked, because such a thing would create a negative impression. If the manager is not inclined to go by your judgement of your colleague's competence, you'll lose face. But it's much easier to control the narrative and restore your manager's confidence in you in a one-on-one conversation, than when it's a group mutiny. No matter what others tell you, do not get encouraged. People often sound like they're with you, but they often are not. They won't back their statements, and you'll be alone holding the bag. And moreover, if you stay out of it, you'll be able to carry the high ground of being above the fray, out of politics, and being balanced. Don't do netagiri of this sort. Conserve it for initiatives for which getting consensus is harder. It might be possible that you're the only one feeling so strongly about it. Then you may be in need of a weekend, or someone to vent to, or even therapy. But get your hate in check.

Generalist

My Manager told me that I am not performing well and indirectly threatend me that I would be put in PIP. I am really tensed and not able to function properly. I anyways don't like my manager and trying to find a new job since last 3 months but nothing is working out. Not sure how to deal with it and what to do...

Amazon PIP culture

Operations Manager

A few colleagues of mine who got promoted in the mid year cycle had ordered a few snacks yesterday. But I didn't go there due to the fact that I wasn't promoted in this cycle.

I know that this attitude of mine is going to hurt me but I don't know how to handle this.

Any suggestions because frankly speaking this feeling is killing me from inside and I can't stop thinking about this even after my office is over.

Jealousy is killing me

Research Specialist

Need advice from the community.

I had my performance review with my manager last week. The broad feedback was something like this- in her mind, if I'm given any task, she knows it will be done and done well, meeting all expectations. She acknowledged that I'm sincere, hard working and don't cut any corners with my work. But will the task be done ++, she wasn't sure.

I've been moving from fighting one fire to the other and never really got a chance to settle in one project, barring one, which my boss says I truly aced. Most of my colleagues believe I've done a stellar job and deserve the top rating but I didn't get that from my manager. 

My last 1:1 was almost 6 months back and all this time I never really got an indication that 'more' was expected. In fact when I was pulled into projects the only thing I was told was to 'look into this and resolve' without clear goals.

I understand this year reviews are tight at most startups but I was left wondering where this came from and what to make out of it. I'm due for another discussion next week. 

Any advice on how to proceed?

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