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My stack ranking story: I was a manager. I was asked to build a team top performers. More than asked: My bonus would be based on the quality of the team. Now,
by pjdemers 10y ago
My stack ranking story:
I was a manager. I was asked to build a team top performers. More than asked: My bonus would be based on the quality of the team.
Now, the team is in place, and it's time for for the first set of reviews. The average is 9/10. Of course they really are that good - I followed orders and built a team of top performers.
But... we have stack ranking. My meta-manager told me that the average had to be 5. My response: What? You're telling me to lower my own bonus! Yes, exactly, he explained, you just figured out why we have stack ranking.
- yourapostasy 10y agoI would like to hear proponents of stack ranking explain how stack ranking and any "we only want A players"-style policies are NOT mutually exclusive. Because if no good case can be made for both co-existing within the same organization, then seeing both can be a good signal to detect for an organization that uses stack ranking as a compensation attenuation mechanism. There may be sound organizational behavior reasons to hide the compensation attenuation in this manner, but I'm hard-pressed to find empirically-based evidence for such reasoning.