For MS, it was definitely true when there was the policy of firing the bottom 10% every year or something like that. It created extremely perverse incentives w

For MS, it was definitely true when there was the policy of firing the bottom 10% every year or something like that. It created extremely perverse incentives where nobody wanted to help each other or would even go as far as to sabotage other people's work in order to make sure they're not on the bottom. Some managers would hire people with the intent to fire them later.