“There are many things that Google does really well, and I plan to advocate that some of these things be adopted at Microsoft. Among them is the peer-based review model where one’s performance is determined largely based on peer comments, and much less so based on the observations of the manager. The idea that a manager is far easier to fool than the co-workers are is sound and largely works. A very important side-effect that this model produces is an increased amount of cooperation between the people, and generally better relationships within the team.”
Sergey Solyanik, who just moved from Google to Microsoft
