 | TL;DR: Shishir Mehrotra's four-level promotion ladder swaps what you're graded on partway up, and the clip is about which criterion goes and which takes over. 🪜
Scope is the one that goes. Once two people carry the same scope, Shishir says, what a promotion committee weighs is “how they do the job.”
Credit to an ex-YouTube CPO for saying the flip out loud at all. In his version, though, the committee explains the new criterion after the employee objects, and nothing in the clip says the person being scored is owed the rubric first.
As far as I can find, no general US rule makes an employer publish a promotion rubric or date a change to it. The closest thing I found, Colorado's AI employment law, was rewritten in May and pushed to 1 January 2027, and what survives centers on notice for AI used in a decision.
Amazon's version of the problem is cruder. The FT reported in May that it shut down KiroRank, an internal AI-usage leaderboard, after employees pointed agents at needless tasks to climb it, and Amazon calls the dashboard an unofficial beta. The agents could do the busywork on demand, and the scoreboard counted usage and had no place for judgment.
You can hit every mark the old rulebook set and only learn the page changed when the promotion doesn't come.
The BBC reported on 8 September that employers are tying more bonuses and promotions to AI use. One US-based senior executive at a large consultancy told it that nobody formally mandates AI, reviews reward the people who use it well anyway, and leadership is “inconsistent and vague on purpose.” Same gap as above: the standard moves at the employer's discretion, and the review stays vague about it.
Suddenly this passage in Ezekiel 33:7-9 jumps at me unannounced like a thief. The Lord charged the prophet Ezekiel to be a watchtower. He’s commissioned to warned the Children of Israel from drifting into sin. If they fall off the mark, figuratively, and Ezekiel warn them on time, they will die in their sins. And Ezekiel would be absolved of their sins, because he has already done his duty to warm them. But if they sin, and Ezekiel didn’t warn them, and they die in their sins, the Lord would hold Ezekiel accountable for not warning them. The burden that the Lord has laid on Ezekiel, involves judgement and discernment. And such judgement doesn’t give two f\ck to anyone.* He either speak up or he doesn’t. There’s no neutral ground. And he knows the price of not speaking up. It’s the same thing with Jeremiah. When Jeremiah withhold himself from speaking in Jeremiah 20:9 – presumably too much persecutive pressure from his peers – the words became like fire burning up his bones until it was just unbearable. It’s was the same unbearable tension of knowing and not saying. Jeremiah can't not speak, even though speaking destroys him. The silence would destroy something deeper. And so, I imagine it will be somewhat similar in these last days. Your judgement and discernment of what lie ahead becomes increasingly more valuable. ________________________ Talk to enough people this has happened to and I hear one question under all of it: who decides what good looks like now? The ones who stop asking it end up writing the yardstick themselves.
Something from an earlier post here comes back to me: Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, telling Lenny's Podcast that engineering went from mostly writing code to mostly planning and reviewing it, a hard read for anyone whose plan was flawless execution.
If a rubric ever changed on you, when did you find out, and who told you?
Clip credit: Silicon Valley Girl (Marina Mogilko) — full video on their channel. DM for credit or removal requests.
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Predictive technology: computational social science
