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I was a manager at FB for a couple of years. Basically, my first official act as a manager was firing someone. From there, it was pretty much, "find one person
by nappy-doo 6y ago
I was a manager at FB for a couple of years. Basically, my first official act as a manager was firing someone. From there, it was pretty much, "find one person on your team per year to fire."
It was an extremely high performing team, and even the less talented engineers were still very good.
I quit rather than live in the culture.
- actuator 6y agoWas this similar to MS's infamous stack ranking system where some teammates will be always rated bad even if everyone is doing well?
- ra7 6y agoYes, FB has a similar system.
- throwaway1777 6y agoThat’s bullshit. FB does not stack rank.
- thewarrior 6y agoThere is stack ranking at the org level. It’s all a bit hush hush but it’s there.
- toast0 6y agoMaybe not to the degree that Microsoft does (did?), but look into 'calibrations', which is similar.
- nappy-doo 6y agoyes they do. I sat in multiple calibrations. They stack rank.
- mcharezinski 6y agoDid you lie to HN community to gain fame or it is actually true?