[JohnMakin]

Better to be put on a PIP than this other weird thing that can happen sometimes, where you’re “unassigned” from a team, maybe due to layoffs or restructuring or performance, but report to essentially no one and have no real work to do. Eventually they expect you to get frustrated and quit, but it can be very difficult when you are in that situation to figure out where you stand.

[russelldjimmy]

Oh wow, this is a thing? It happened to me.

- unassigned from a team

- report to no one

- no real work to do

- got frustrated and quit

I didn’t stick around till appraisals. I shudder to think what might have happened if I did. No one was looking at my performance.

[jemmyw]

that doesn't sound that bad as an swe. Work on some of those frustrations, do some refactoring, bug fixing and documenting. Maybe have some extra time for job hunting. At least you're being paid.

[JohnMakin]

Trust me, it sucks, especially when the next performance review rolls around. In large organizations where this is possible, often you won't even be able to work on anything because it requires approvals from a managerial chain you are not a part of, or repository access that is given by team, etc.