Although I think mandatory rankings and assuming the bottom x% should be exited isn’t great approach, I also don’t think it’s a company or managers job to coach you into being a productive employee.
Yes, they should have direct feedback but overall you are expected to be a professional. This means you are accountable for your work - you do what you say you will. That you express concern early and not late in the process. That you deliver quality outputs that your peers respect. That you assimilate to team culture and participate it and that you are a net positive to morale - your team wants to work with you.
Managers lay out expectations but they aren’t babysitters. Not all managers are good of course. A good one should be able to nudge you back on course and build a rapport, but they can’t be expected to make you a professional.
I know you are getting downvoted but the real question is: What is a manager's job? If it is not to code, not to understand systems, not to design, not to coach, not to help the team - what is it exactly?
"It depends". A managers job is to understand the business and what the strategy and ultimate goals of the business are and to direct their organization in such a way that contributes to this. This means staffing, equipping, training a team and then ensuring that the best possible objectives are being met that contribute to the larger organizational objectives. To ensure their cog is functioning optimally. That their KPIs are being hit effectively and that they make sense.
They should ensure the right code is being written and that it's of high quality and know who is contributing what. They should design and use metrics to measure this. They should nurture, yes, but they aren't a parent. But yes they should identify when a team member is coming up short and help them get on track but the contributor needs to come equipped with the basic skills - which is the managers responsibility to judge during hiring. To be sure, a manager who tends to have trouble with low performing contributors they've hired usually shows the managers is ineffective at hiring.
Yes, they should have direct feedback but overall you are expected to be a professional. This means you are accountable for your work - you do what you say you will. That you express concern early and not late in the process. That you deliver quality outputs that your peers respect. That you assimilate to team culture and participate it and that you are a net positive to morale - your team wants to work with you.
Managers lay out expectations but they aren’t babysitters. Not all managers are good of course. A good one should be able to nudge you back on course and build a rapport, but they can’t be expected to make you a professional.