It may be, but remember that most companies do stack ranking at some roll up level, not over the entire population. I had 40+ developers in my organization wit

It may be, but remember that most companies do stack ranking at some roll up level, not over the entire population. I had 40+ developers in my organization with two peers having comparable sized teams. We were expected to horse trade amongst ourselves to insure the VP got his distribution. However, the VP would always try to browbeat each of us into matching the curve. It was pretty intense and he frankly didn’t give a rat’s rear end who got steamrolled in the process. To say I was thrilled to have outlasted his employment would be an understatement.