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I worked under him. We gamed the system by doing a round robin of bad reviews with the understanding the next review will be a huge improvement.
Genius! I hope you did well there ๐
Yeah, we did really well. It wasn't until Satya came on and after a few weeks he laid my entire department off.
God that's just a slightly newer version of adding loops into Mainframe Cobol so you can increase performance when you needed to prove you were busy
Honestly it's sorta a known tactic in this industry. I got the idea from old coworkers at Intel. They do the same shit.