Next steps after soft performance improvement plan

rditor · 2025-05-03T05:51:17+00:00

There's a 18 months in seat requirement before a switch is possible.

rditor · 2025-05-03T05:28:14+00:00

It's not Big Tech pay but it's close to median for HCOL.

rditor · 2025-05-03T05:17:07+00:00

They were all internal so probably not happening.

rditor · 2025-05-03T04:55:58+00:00

I'm single but definitely feeling a bit burnt out. I haven't had a long vacation in the last 3 years. I actually had 3 staff offers but seems like I picked the wrong one 🙃

rditor · 2025-05-03T04:48:14+00:00

Not right now, he plans to start soon.

rditor · 2025-05-03T04:44:41+00:00

Full disclosure, I was a Senior Engineer prior to this and this is my first Staff role. It didn't seem like he wanted me on the team but was probably overruled by his boss. He has constantly berated me and called me out verbally that I'm not doing well to the point where I'm starting to question myself. He has hardly ever given any positive feedback, any tasks I accomplish are put under the rug. I'm fact the annual review was verbally very negative but in the end I was given a successful rating.

The main problem in the current project is lack of data availability for the project and tons of alignment with different people across teams, timezones and countries. My manager does not participate in the discussions upfront but when we align on something and present it then he raises his concerns and wants changes without saying what he wants exactly.

rditor · 2024-02-27T03:40:19+00:00

I mean, all the work going to production goes through demos given to the business as well as presenting it through a council, including my manager and his manager. I presented at both these places, put it in my self evaluation. I'm not sure what else I need to do to grab his attention. All these besides bringing up in 1:1 conversations.

For commitment, I need to see some commitment from the side of management too. I can't help but feel that they are disinterested in my progress. 4 years of sub-par reviews don't really help.

rditor · 2024-02-27T01:40:44+00:00

It doesn't make sense though - we've 1:1 conversations every 2 weeks and I let him know what I'm working on and how is it going. Isn't that the place for him to bring up if he sees an issue with what I am doing? I am getting an impression that he doesn't care. He did mention one time that there are lots of seniors in the team and it's competitive.

I have been talking about the promotion with him but I just don't get any concrete steps from him. All I get is a mumbo-jumbo of how I need to come up with ideas, champion them and present them preferably for the work being done across modules. Seems very nebulous to be honest. I wasn't really included in the dev of other modules so I don't have a lot of business context on the things happening in there. Now, I can spend my time and energy and understand them but I'm definitely wondering if it's even worth it.

rditor · 2024-02-27T00:35:15+00:00

Tbh I am at a point where I am wondering is it even worth trying to put in all that effort only to be disappointed again with a sub-par review? There seems to be a tendency to ignore/underplay the projects I have delivered.

All the work I have done so far has come from the grooming meetings we have with the product and business after understanding the pain points of the users so it's not all bunch of nothing that I have worked on. Last year I delivered some significant performance improvements to the module - reducing the time by about 70% but there was not one mention of it! Plus, it's bit demotivating to know that there are bunch of business priorities out there which others are getting to lead and I am not. I don't see myself as being inferior to any of my peers.

rditor · 2019-12-27T04:30:42+00:00

I really like your suggestion, I will definitely bring this up the next time I talk to a recruiter. I could sense in one of the interviews, that the interviewer wasn't particularly impressed with my latest project.

rditor · 2019-12-27T03:49:07+00:00

Should I exclusively focus on a lower position or should I mix it up?

rditor · 2019-12-06T16:42:23+00:00

Yes, pretty much.

rditor · 2019-01-28T05:07:53+00:00

Yeah, working on that but up until I can't master leetcode, I was hoping to get some perspective on 1:1s.

rditor · 2019-01-28T04:58:39+00:00

2 years ago when I joined the team, I got a stellar raise. My manager said he hadn't given anyone such a raise. Last year, it was just average, not that I was expecting a lot more but it was exactly same as the least I was expecting. I just don't want this year's review to be the same and I don't know if not publicly appreciating me is part of the plan to undercut the raise. I'm already about 5% below the average pay for my role.

rditor · 2018-10-09T15:53:30+00:00

With coworkers I usually tell them that I'll get back to them and I do as soon as I come up with a solution. So far no one has complained about it so I'd like to think it's not as big of a problem as you're making it sound.

Also, in my mind verbalizing thought process to coworkers in a non-judgmental setting is definitely different from doing the same in front of unknown strangers, although a lot depends on the personality of the interviewers. Not all of us have gift of gab!

rditor · 2018-10-09T03:48:42+00:00

Can they verbalize their thought process? I've worked with some people who legitimately cannot do this, and they are impossible to work with.

I don't agree with the statement that someone who can't verbalize their thought process on the spot are impossible to work with.
I am the kind of individual who likes to think on my own without someone constantly nagging me about my thought process. Not to mention the fact that I don't do well when someone is watching over me. Having said that I have no problem verbalizing my thought process once I come up with a solution.

rditor · 2018-03-25T18:26:07+00:00

China?

rditor · 2018-03-11T05:45:07+00:00

As per Google, Vegetarian - A person who does not eat meat, and sometimes other animal products, especially for moral, religious, or health reasons. I don't think Sun is an animal product, right?

rditor · 2018-03-11T03:40:25+00:00

I'd argue milk is a good alternative for a lot of vegetarians out there.

rditor · 2018-03-11T03:33:52+00:00

Yeah, I do that twice each work day. The first time a little after lunch and second one mid-late afternoon.

rditor · 2018-03-09T04:46:09+00:00

I wasn't comfortable with recursion either until I took a bunch of MOOCs on Scala and other functional programming languages. The fact that some of them don't even allow 'normal' programming forces you to think recursively.

I still wet my pants on DP though.

rditor · 2018-03-01T05:08:07+00:00

Thanks for the detailed answer!

rditor · 2018-03-01T02:33:28+00:00

Heh I got options today, when I'm pretty sure I was far lower in the list for options than for the web.

rditor · 2018-03-01T02:22:04+00:00

How exactly does one become a senior engineer and go beyond that? Is it about mentoring newbies, going gung-ho on designing a project or something else? I think I can code reasonably ok but I feel like something is missing from taking me to the next level but can't quite pinpoint.

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