Comment by hn72774
I know someone at IC level there who hasn't done actual work in many months. There is literally no work because their old team was cut and they haven't found a new one yet. They are just collecting paychecks until an eventual (hopeful) layoff and severance package.
Some VP's still need to show headcount to justify their own jobs?
I believe this could happen, but find it hard to believe it would last a few months. The systems would auto-assign them a manager. That manager would be getting reports on their productivity, and would have them in their list of people they have to give ratings to. At this point they would have gone through a mid-cycle stack ranking.
Unless their current manager is colluding with them, they would have been ranked into a pip by now.