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Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review overhaul

40 点作者 yusufaytas将近 6 年前

15 条评论

Traster将近 6 年前
&gt;The $47 billion Australian software company, which was founded in Sydney in 2002 and floated on the US stock market in 2015, says two-thirds of every performance review will now have nothing to do with job skills.<p>&gt;Instead, equal weighting will be given to how each of its 3000 employees impacts others on their team, and to how they live the company values. Atlassian says the change will “more fairly measure people on how they bring their whole self to work”.<p>For a company that seems to be catching on to the idea that working at a company might involve being good at working as part of a time, I can&#x27;t help feel describing that as &quot;having nothing to do with job skills&quot; is probably not the right way of looking at it.<p>In fact, there are some really funny points in this article that point to the bias that this is being met with<p>&gt;Asked if it would be possible for someone who did well in their role to be outscored by someone who did poorly but was more likeable<p>For gods&#x27; sakes it is not about being likeable, it&#x27;s about being able to work productively in a team environment. You aren&#x27;t going to get a good review by being useless but really good at small talk in the kitcken. It&#x27;s about being able to perform at the company in a way that positively impacts others whilst getting your own work done. Is is easier to work with someone if they&#x27;re likeable? Probably. If someone is difficult to work with are they dislikeable? Sure. But stop talking about the side-effects and talk about the actual thing that&#x27;s important - ability to add value to the company.
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achow将近 6 年前
On the other hand:<p>Many former employees blamed [Facebook&#x27;s] cult-like atmosphere partly on Facebook’s performance review system, which requires employees to get reviews from approximately five of their peers twice a year. This peer review system pressures employees to forge friendships with colleagues at every possible opportunity, whether it be going to lunch together each day or hanging out after work.<p>“It’s a little bit of a popularity contest,” said one manager who left the company in 2017. “You can cherry-pick the people who like you — maybe throw in one bad apple to equalize it.”<p><i>Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;facebook-culture-cult-performance-review-process-blamed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;facebook-culture-cult-perfor...</a>
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bengale将近 6 年前
Sounds like Atlassian have reached the size where enough incompetents have been hired that they try to drive out the useful people because they make them look bad.
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lmm将近 6 年前
And somehow, as if by magic, anyone from a working-class background will turn out to have been a &quot;jerk&quot;, and those who went to the right schools and are friends with the right people will turn out to have been &quot;living our values&quot;. And one more slice of that pesky social mobility will go away.
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code4tee将近 6 年前
The spirit of this is in the right direction but the details are in the implementation. I’ve seen this sort of thing backfire big time as it basically encourages cliques of people that “like” each other and then shun others.<p>If not done properly the whole company starts to feel like high school politics all over again as it loses track of what it’s actually accomplishing or not accomplishing and focuses too much on poorly implemented soft metrics. I’ve seen excellent managers that drive high performing teams get dinged by under-performers on those teams who say said manager is hard to work with. Sure they’d be much happier with a manager that let them slack off but that’s not going to help the company.
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ps101将近 6 年前
Instead of either their old or their new approach:<p>1. Don&#x27;t tolerate jerks regardless of their level of &quot;brilliant&quot;. And simply not being likeable isn&#x27;t enough to categorise someone as a jerk.<p>2. Give your employees honest reviews focusing on their actual skills, performance and impact. Don&#x27;t come up with artificially soft language and treat them like children who need to tiptoed around.
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jillesvangurp将近 6 年前
The weakness in this model is that technically people calling other people jerks, tend to be jerks. Especially when there&#x27;s some negative consequence for that person in the form of less favorable reviews it would be kind of nasty to do this on the record. So, the people doing this the most would in my book be the actual jerks. This thing gets super political and in politics, the charismatic sociopaths end up leading.<p>I&#x27;d advertise a different model where who works for whom is strictly voluntary. Somebody wants something done and needs somebody else to work with them; that other person needs to agree to work with that person and should have the option to join another team instead of being assigned to a group of people. Nobody likes working for jerks and the whole thing will sort itself out in no-time. Team players joining forces together will produce great results and you can then simply judge the output.<p>You&#x27;ll get certain people having a hard time getting a team together or finding a team that will have them because they are jerks, that would be a reason for them to get a bad review (because they don&#x27;t deliver). People voting with their feet is a more honest model than people whining to their managers. Empower people to vote with their feet. Small teams, empowered to do what needs doing, with people committed to working with each other can get things done.<p>You&#x27;ll get all your performers joining forces and you can expect great results. Everybody else ends up stuck with each other and it should show in whatever teams results you get from that. Some people get a lot of stuff done by themselves and that might still be positive. Linus Torvalds is a jerk, I wouldn&#x27;t want him on my team but I use Linux and Git on a daily basis and I&#x27;m glad he&#x27;s working on that.
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logicchains将近 6 年前
&quot;rather than a score, they either get an “exceptional year”, a “great year” or an “off year”.&quot; - I wonder if that means an average year counts as an &quot;off year&quot;?
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majkinetor将近 6 年前
Unless the jerk part is extreme, this is totally inappropriate. Extreme brilliant jerks are rare in my experience. Funny&#x2F;tolerable brilliant jerks are the norm in jerk world.<p>This is babysitting of adult people.<p>Any kid must tolerate&#x2F;live-with way more insulting behavior every freaking day without anything in return like regular pocket money.<p>Somebody think your code is shitty, you smell funny, you have weird glasses, you talk to quite, wow, lets immediately make a drama.<p>World of adults has become inferior to the world of kids.
patientplatypus将近 6 年前
Good.<p>I turned down a job this week because it became clear that the CEO couldn&#x27;t handle any non-positive feedback and took it as a personal criticism.<p>Hey dude, if you have a redux reducer file that&#x27;s over 11k+ lines long that doesn&#x27;t mean that I&#x27;m &quot;not smart enough to understand your code&quot; it means you haven&#x27;t bothered to keep basic code hygiene and break up your files.<p>It was a shame too - cool industry and tech stack and an odious toxic suck-bro culture. &#x2F;smh
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forgottenpass将近 6 年前
&gt;Atlassian says the change will “more fairly measure people on how they bring their whole self to work”.<p>They don&#x27;t want people to bring their whole selves to work; nobody actually wants that. Lies like this cast immediate doubt onto everything else they&#x27;re saying about the workplace environment.
SanchoPanda将近 6 年前
If they stick to it, it could be helpful in hiring as well. They need reverse inquiry from really smart kids (and it is mainly kids in all likelihood) who were not the standard candidate from years past.
TickleSteve将近 6 年前
So... no job at Atlassian for Torvalds??
fhy45678将近 6 年前
1 Apple in 10 lemons is a culture misfit and can be labelled as a brilliant jerk.
gridlockd将近 6 年前
&gt; Atlassian employees can receive one of three grading levels on each element, based on “growth mindset language” — rather than a score, they either get an “exceptional year”, a “great year” or an “off year”.<p>...and right there flips the Bozo Bit.
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