You have to be down for any company's culture to have much success there. I agree that this seems stupid, but Microsoft also is far larger than any company I'd

You have to be down for any company's culture to have much success there. I agree that this seems stupid, but Microsoft also is far larger than any company I'd probably work for. There's a lot of other companies that I wouldn't work for either that are that large and they don't use stack ranking. At some point when you become this big, you look at HR as being literally HUMAN RESOURCES, in the sense of the junk you mine in StarCraft. It's chaff to deliver products. Seems as reasonable a system as any to manage that many folks. It's the resources attitude I wouldn't want to be around, not specifically the stack ranking. Seems like a consequence rather than a cause.