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I have an open secret for you - they never dropped stack ranking. It is just called differently and less transparent now but they still grade on the curve. The
by option 5y ago
I have an open secret for you - they never dropped stack ranking. It is just called differently and less transparent now but they still grade on the curve. The only real change is that you, as a manager, don’t have to have 5% on “possible fire list”. But larger teams will, on average, have about 5% of people whom they don’t care about and/or prefer to lose.
- paxys 5y agoI was at Microsoft when the switch happened, and can confirm this. The only thing that changed after they dropped stack ranking was that employees were no longer told which performance bucket they fell under, and any comp changes/stock grants were now fully opaque with zero justification given.
- Wistar 5y agoAnd wasn't that just a wonderful change?
- H8crilA 5y agoI don't know what assumptions/mindset you'd have to start with to think it's a great change. You simply get less information.
- ignoramous 5y agoGP was being sarcastic, from what I can tell.
- Wistar 5y agoYes. I was there at the time. Only time in my life I was consumed by near crippling anxiety was dealing with ranking/review process at MS. It all seemed so pointless to me. And toxic.
- ex_amazon_sde 5y ago5%? I've seen many engineering teams having an attrition rate well above 25%, where only few people would stay for longer than 3 years.