Microsoft's performance evaluation system roils coders
eWeek | at | by Mike
According to a recent report by a technology labor union, Microsoft programmers and workers are mad as heck and don't want to take it anymore. The union hopes this may be a key to promote organizing Redmond's work force.
The report, "Rising Frustration with Microsoft's Compensation and Review System," was released by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a Redmond, Wash., union affiliated with the CWA.
It says that workers are troubled by a range of performance review issues, including management's apparent use of a bell curve grading system for raises and complaints of a "well-entrenched culture of favoritism."