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It's an understandable byproduct of a stack ranked organization. Any time you have the threat of being ranked and rewarded based on delivery well anything that

• zaroth 12y ago
  The threat of being ranked? We are ranked constantly starting at 1st grade. Competitive ranking should be a very familiar feeling for every American at least. When humans face the prospect of being ranked, the only option then becomes to lie, cheat, take shortcuts, or put lives at risk?! It may be an understandable byproduct for the weak, the proud, or the immature. Cheating is certainly endemic in our society, but I don't believe that absolves the cheaters; it's still criminal/unethical and it should still get you fired, throw off the team, or sent to jail. There is something important to study and learn from this disaster, but my personal opinion is it's not so much a problem with performance evaluations, but rather a spectacular engineering failure combined with a company rotten to the core that completely lost its sense of purpose (hint: serving customers, not short term profit). I do expect that adult humans can be subjected to significant workplace stress and pressure and still be expected to behave ethically and responsibly. I think that the law and justice expect the same.