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It's rough out there (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by [M] to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Balmer was a terrible CEO by nearly every measure, but the one that stands out for me is the culture he cultivated where team members would actively undermine one another just for a better performance review.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Balmer was a terrible CEO by nearly every measure

    Steve Ballmer has an estimated net worth between $130 billion and $145 billion, consistently ranking among the top 15 wealthiest people in the world

    What other measure is there?

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  • [–] 45 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Under his watch MS missed the smartphone boat, waffled between consumer and commercial products, Windows Vista, Bing, stack ranking employees, organizational silos, pushed a know it all mindset (as opposed to a learning mindset), etc.

    The next CEO did a lot of cleanup for many years.

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