There will be projects that are succeeding and they will get more people. Not necessarily. I've seen projects that were profit centers deprioritized for other

There will be projects that are succeeding and they will get more people. Not necessarily. I've seen projects that were profit centers deprioritized for other projects that were moonshots. Due to forced ranking, this resulted in the important but less sexy project getting fewer of the nice evaluations to distribute across the group and the loss of important people. It was ultimately an own-goal on the company's part, but the whole process was too big for any one person to prevent it. It was like watching a slow train wreck. How do you get rid of them and make the whole company stronger? This is a good question. I don't have any clear answers, myself. I'm inclined to think a good place to start is a hiring freeze in the groups that are not contributing and then letting them shrink by attrition followed by a reorg once the project is too understaffed to be competitive.