I was at Microsoft from 1991 to 2007, almost always as an IC, and don't ever recall stack-ranking teammates. That was always something done by the managers, no

I was at Microsoft from 1991 to 2007, almost always as an IC, and don't ever recall stack-ranking teammates. That was always something done by the managers, not the ICs. Even my short stint as a manager (with one report, lol), I wasn't on any of the stack-ranking meetings, thankfully.