> Stack ranking seems to misunderstand how statistics work. Sure, 5% of the people in the company might be under performers, but that does not at all suggest th

> Stack ranking seems to misunderstand how statistics work. Sure, 5% of the people in the company might be under performers, but that does not at all suggest that 5% of each team are. Further, the weakest member of a team may well ahead of the curve if you are on a strong team. absolutely, it may work (possibly) if you could apply that 5% over an entire large department but each line manager only has visibility over their (hopefully) small number of reports so if you have 3 excellent reports on a high performing team: who do you dump in it? the usual answer is the person with the least leverage/ability to resign, which is grossly unfair