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No manager has direct insight into performance of 300 people (at least in tech). They have to rely on subordinate managers/teamleads, each of which can be unre
by grayfaced 4y ago
No manager has direct insight into performance of 300 people (at least in tech). They have to rely on subordinate managers/teamleads, each of which can be unreliable for different reasons. Some may be playing politics, some may just be bad managers. Some will overhype their employees, some will be honest to a fault. Get them all in a ranking board, and all sorts of games get played.
If your team leads could be trusted to measure appropriately, you wouldn't need stack rankings because they'd correctly identify those under-performing. Stack ranking is conceding that your managers can't properly measure performance. Shouldn't that reflect more on management?