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With stack ranking a manager must rank the entire team from worst to best and fire / warn the lowest ranked person in the team. Imagine a team with the 10 best
by sobani 6y ago
With stack ranking a manager must rank the entire team from worst to best and fire / warn the lowest ranked person in the team. Imagine a team with the 10 best people you ever worked with. Now fire the least great of them. You must, because didn't you just say he/she is the worst of the team?
Instead the Netflix process sounds a lot more fair. If everyone is awesome, no one needs to be fired.
- iamacyborg 6y agoI mean, they both sound like dystopian nightmare scenarios tbh.
- coldpie 6y agoYeah. Threads like this whole discussion are why I never want to work for a "big" company. More than about 50 people and you start to get into this kind of managerial/competitive BS. No thanks, I'll take the lower (but still more than sufficient) pay of a small company over that any day.
- lensopra 6y agoWhat part of Netflix's arrangement sounds like a "dystopian nightmare scenario"?
- iamacyborg 6y agoGet fired for no reason because your manager doesn't like you? I guess a lot of that is helped by "at will" employment in the States. In the UK for example if an employee has worked for 2 years at a company you can't just fire them for no real reason.
- jkinudsjknds 6y agoYou don't NEED to fire the lowest ranking person in a stacked ranking system. It's not impossible to recognize the lowest of 10 is still pretty good. You could also just do this at a much larger scale. The lowest of 10 has a high chance of being decent. The lowest of 200 might actually crop up something interesting.