Comment by simoncion

> ...would you want to recommend them for a job at a new company if they asked?

Depends on the reason for the PIP.

Sometimes folks who get put on them are bad fits for the demands of that particular job at that particular company and would do (and end up doing) stellar elsewhere.

Sometimes folks get put on them to try to ward against theoretical anti-ageism/anti-racism suits fired off in response to an upcoming layoff.

And SOMETIMES folks get put on them because of stack ranking... where managers are obligated to push out a certain number of people every single year.

I've seen scenarios one and three personally, and scenario two seems totally plausible because there's no intelligence/competence test required to become a business owner or manager... so such folks make all sorts of dumbass mistakes.

If you're the sort of person who automatically passes over someone because their previous manager thought poorly of them, then that explains so much about you opinions expressed in this subthread.