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tekkychick said:
Wasn't that the GM or GE strategy? The companies I've worked for do the stack ranking, but don't fire the bottom 5%, which is what GE or GM used to do
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If you ever get ranked a 4 or a 5 at Microsoft, theoretically you can sometimes keep your job (especially if it's a 4), but for all intents and purposes your career is over, and you may as well quit. GM's strategy did indeed impose hard quotas of 5%, which managers would attempt to meet by firing whoever they judged least competent, but there's no way to accurately measure who truly is at the bottom 5%, and it often just devolved into personal arbitrice.
 
Watermark the Red said:
If you ever get ranked a 4 or a 5 at Microsoft, theoretically you can sometimes keep your job (especially if it's a 4), but for all intents and purposes your career is over, and you may as well quit. GM's strategy did indeed impose hard quotas of 5%, which managers would attempt to meet by firing whoever they judged least competent, but there's no way to accurately measure who truly is at the bottom 5%, and it often just devolved into personal arbitrice.
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I do agree it's a stupid strategy.
 
It reminds me of how Stalin implemented his de-kulakization policies. When the Soviet Union wanted to eliminate all vestige of class distinction in the countryside, they sent out party operatives into the countryside to root out anyone too wealthy. Within a couple of years, they had pretty much accomplished their job, everyone wealthy had been shot and there were only presents. Yet, Stalin wouldn't believe them - clearly all the people starving in the famines was due to leftover greedy Kulaks hoarding food. So, he instituted quotas. Pretty soon, party operatives were going through the countryside just shooting random peasants who had slightly more wealth due to having a lot of sons, or whenever a village was truly totally equal, they'd just pick a few peasants at random and blow their brains out, to meet these ridiculous quotas. It's not an original, sophisticated idea, it's an onerous one stolen from totalitarian regimes of the past that don't give two shit's about justice.
 
Watermark the Red said:
Microsoft employees stack ranking, AKA firing quotas, in which a manager is required to fire a certain amount of employees every year just to meet arbitrary quotas. That is not called being good to your employees, it creates a really perverse work environment.
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pretty sure you don't necessarily get fired, you just miss out on bonus's, potential promotions, you get bad reviews even if you were awesome just because you are being compared to your small subset group. yeah stacked ranking is totally fucking stupid. lots of microsoft employees are saying it's eating them alive.
 
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