I’m a Product Manager in Canada and recently had a difficult mid-year review. Engineering manager gave negative feedback to my line manager, mainly saying I’m not performing strongly enough in a very engineering/infrastructure-heavy product area.What’s confusing is that my annual evaluation in March was positive. I received a raise and bonus so this sudden shift has been hard to process. During the discussion, the examples they gave were quite vague. They said I’ll be put on an internal “development plan” for 60 days, and if things don’t improve, it could move into a formal HR-recorded PIP. Morever the line manager was also laughing in the whole situation and asked me to get seriously. For me it was a tensed sitution, not understand the laughter.
They’ll send the development plan in a few days and asked me to propose my own goals within the next two weeks. I’ve already started aggressively applying for jobs, but the market feels much worse than before. Earlier I used to get interview calls quickly, but now I’m barely hearing back, especially being in Canada.
- How often do these development plans turn into formal PIPs?
- Are they usually recoverable?