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The Pyramid Of Recruitment
It’s not an MLM, honestly, it’s a flat org chart, we’re all qualified, and we don’t offer recruitment bonuses at all!
It’s no secret that I, along with what I’d strongly suspect is a pretty hefty number of software engineers working in the Grand Game of Software Engineering today, are no fans of the modern day performance review process.
I’ve said previously how it’s fundamentally at heart box ticking process, a gesturing exercise that the modern corporate operation uses to feign their own interest in keeping their respective employees’ heads above water when it comes to putting food on the table, drinks in the fridge, and bits in the fibre modem.
For, if it were an exercise executed in good faith and with actual effective results we’d receive constructive and useful feedback, have attainable and relevant goals, and (of course) get at least a market rate pay rise instead of slowly having our financial pips continually and aggressively squeezed until they squeak rather alarmingly.
What struck me recently, again reflecting on the performance review process now that I’ve been on both sides of the table¹, as it were, for a while is how much like a multi-level marketing scheme it really is in that it’s huge and encompassing, serves absolutely no-one except that at the top of the tree, and causes untold misery and suffering…
