it puts pressure on bottom performers to leave the company or find a team that's a better match. Stack-ranking makes it impossible for everyone but the top 25%

it puts pressure on bottom performers to leave the company or find a team that's a better match. Stack-ranking makes it impossible for everyone but the top 25% to transfer, though, because no one wants someone with a bad or mediocre review history. If you need to fire people, fire them. Flushing out good people in the name of stack ranking is a pointless, morale-killing waste.