'Stack and Yank' performance reviews! - Anonymous employee Sage Employee Review

2.0
Oct 20, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Joined recently and seemed a fairly decent place and good people although did notice a somewhat stressed atmosphere and maybe a relatively high turnover. When I found out about their performance review system realised why.

Cons

I wish I had read Glassdoor first before i joined. Just a few too many negative reviews to ignore and many around a common theme, their 'stack and yank' performance review system where about 15% of people annually are likely to be regarded unsatisfactory and put on a performance improvement plan (career death even if you survive it). Even though forced grading is now no longer mandatory their documentation still mentions a ridiculous arbitrary 15% figure that they expect to 'need improvement' (they even confirm this in their responses on the topic). Think we all know politics often come into play in these things and why would anyone with decent cloud skills want to stay in such a place and take these risks...plenty of other jobs out there.

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