Should I take this job?

In My Humble Opinion
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[QUOTE=Shagnasty]

I just got fucked over by my mega-corp a few weeks ago. I was hired as a developer and small-scale project manager (3 or so other developers). I have always done my job extremely well and I am decorated as the highest level of subject matter expert in 5 different areas which is unheard of. Meanwhile, we adopted a 40+ person arm in India which me and my immediate coworkers are expected to manage. Almost none of my work related to our new Indian arm so I just did the work that I have always done over the past 3 years.

I just got my performance review. Many of my metrics didn’t match up to what my coworkers were doing (sending work to India and filling out spreadsheets on it). I not only lost my bonus but I got a pay freeze as well. It was appealed by my boss and my bosses boss but upper-management claimed there was nothing they could do. Many of our managers just quit within a week or so of one another and I take that as a very bad thing.

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That sucks. Who does performance review in your company? In every place I’ve been, it has been the manager and the second level manager, with maybe one level up doing a review for equity. Do you have some metric to pay equation? It sounds like your manager is almost claiming he or she had nothing to do with it, which is bs in my experience. I’ve seen first level managers not get someone what they want pretty often, but seldom second level. And didn’t you get a progress review some time? Bottom line, it seems to me you have every right to feel you got screwed.

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[QUOTE=Voyager]
That sucks. Who does performance review in your company? In every place I’ve been, it has been the manager and the second level manager, with maybe one level up doing a review for equity. Do you have some metric to pay equation? It sounds like your manager is almost claiming he or she had nothing to do with it, which is bs in my experience. I’ve seen first level managers not get someone what they want pretty often, but seldom second level. And didn’t you get a progress review some time? Bottom line, it seems to me you have every right to feel you got screwed.
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I got called into a conference room today by my new manager to give me an apology and to tell me that things would change within the next 7 - 10 days although he was not at liberty to tell me what other than they would be positive. He told me that the old management structure (the ones that quit) were dysfunctional and that I should destroy any “action plans” that they gave me. I also found out that the principle person that screwed me over was the person that I considered my best friend there.

Never fully trust companies or anyone in them. I hope this finally works out.

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I find that when you are in an environment where three layers of management “don’t know nothin”, either someone is full of shit, ineffective at their job as manager, doesn’t give a shit or some combination.