I'm a Data Analyst for a state university. I'm part of the support team, which means I assist various teams with their projects, and I switch teams every few months or so. At the end of my stay with a team, their managers talk to my manager regarding my work. And so far, every single one of them has viewed me favorably. Except for the last team.
I think the way it works is the other manager first gives a brief description of me working with them, then write a formal report on my work. My manager has shared the review with me, and basically, they said:
"OP is great in terms of energy, and he was eager to work on whatever tasks he asked him to do so. However, his communication was all over the place, and whenever we asked him for an update he seemed to give vague answers. Lastly, his work was left to be desired and had a lot of problems, and we found it was more efficient to create and run the script ourselves rather than continue to use his work"
I had a talk with my manager today. my defenses were:
My manager also added that my performance improvement was taking longer than expected. (I have been with the organization for 1.5 years. The performance improvement is expected to happen after 1 year)
Overall, my manager was very understanding and I think our talk ended well with coming up with a performance improvement plan. While I will work on following through with these plans, I also found them to be really unmotivating, especially after receiving such scathing reviews.
IDK, I really liked this organization at first, but after getting those reviews I am thinking of maybe joining the team that liked having me and ditching the support team, or leave the organization altogether. The job markets really open in my area, so I don't think it'll take too long for me to find another.
I think the way it works is the other manager first gives a brief description of me working with them, then write a formal report on my work. My manager has shared the review with me, and basically, they said:
"OP is great in terms of energy, and he was eager to work on whatever tasks he asked him to do so. However, his communication was all over the place, and whenever we asked him for an update he seemed to give vague answers. Lastly, his work was left to be desired and had a lot of problems, and we found it was more efficient to create and run the script ourselves rather than continue to use his work"
I had a talk with my manager today. my defenses were:
- It is true the communication was a bit all over the place, but this was because they didn't seem to have a definite communication channel. Every other team I've joined so far had dedicated slack (communication tool) channels for specific purposes, and this team kept creating new ones or open new DM chat
- I gave vague answers because this is what I thought they had wanted. Granted I should've asked for clarification, but based on the documents they provided I gave them updates on what I was working on
- Their code was already a mess to work with. I am pretty sure I left comments on what/how I changed them. I made sure it was standardized for the team, yet it still failed when others used it.
- I also got grad school and volunteering stuff to work with outside of the job. I have little room to review my work.
My manager also added that my performance improvement was taking longer than expected. (I have been with the organization for 1.5 years. The performance improvement is expected to happen after 1 year)
Overall, my manager was very understanding and I think our talk ended well with coming up with a performance improvement plan. While I will work on following through with these plans, I also found them to be really unmotivating, especially after receiving such scathing reviews.
IDK, I really liked this organization at first, but after getting those reviews I am thinking of maybe joining the team that liked having me and ditching the support team, or leave the organization altogether. The job markets really open in my area, so I don't think it'll take too long for me to find another.
