Google is adjusting its performance evaluation system, through some changes to “disguised salary increases” for employees, so as to alleviate the conflict between ordinary employees and leadership on the issue of compensation.
Internal documents show that starting this week, Google will use an updated performance review process called Google Assessment and Development (GRAD), reducing the frequency of reviews from twice a year to once a year and giving managers greater assessment responsibility, and no longer rely excessively on peer assessment.
“Under this new process, we expect that most Google employees will receive higher compensation and an increase in total compensation than under the previous Perf system,” according to a document.
Google’s head of search, Prabhakar Raghavan, reiterated this at the company’s all-hands meeting on Friday, two people familiar with the matter said. A Google spokeswoman said, “no other information was shared.”