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Stack ranking (especially rank and yank) has consistently been shown as a poor management practice. It leads to employees spending more time chasing good perfor
by ryan_lane 4y ago
Stack ranking (especially rank and yank) has consistently been shown as a poor management practice. It leads to employees spending more time chasing good performance reviews than providing value to the company, and in many cases has been shown to cause employees to actively sabotage other people's work, and in other cases to not work with high performers.
Amazon hires to fire due to it. Microsoft moved away from it, but had known issues with sabatogue across teams/projects.
- mrandish 4y agoI fully agree. I'm not defending stack ranking as good, just saying that these types of roles are usually very competitive. With options, there's millions of dollars at stake. There is going to generally be some sort of evaluative process to insure all that money is buying sufficient value. Not saying it's fair...