Seems like it could appear to work in a growing, young company with rising stock value. If someone is genuinely good, but gets stack-ranked out of your group, i

Seems like it could appear to work in a growing, young company with rising stock value. If someone is genuinely good, but gets stack-ranked out of your group, it's probably not as hard to move to another, possibly new group, when the firm is growing. But when the company is mature, and the stock is flat, and the headcount is under pressure...