https://qz-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/qz.com/work/1539071/how-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-rebuilt-the-company-culture/amp/ in this article it describes MS old perf review system where they had to stack rank everyone (forced curve) and bad mark prevented people changing teams. Very similar to what Amazon does today. Did those fired HRs from Microsoft come to Amazon with their perf review system?
Its called calibration. We still have forced Attrition and stack ranking.
Everyone does this to some degree or another, because it's the only thing you can do if you want a system that rewards high performance and addresses low performance.
Right but not forced one.
Yes, but that gets into murky territory. How much is the distribution enforced, at what org size, etc. There is nothing wrong with stack ranking to rough percentage buckets across a thousand people. There is something wrong with applying a fixed curve to a team of 10. Where it should sit in between those two is up for debate. Headlines are all about distilling the issue down to it's least intelligent form.
In some ways I was thankful for the old system. I’ve heard it happen too many times where bad managers will try to get you to write extra fluff and hide behind the new system (who used you? who’d you use? how’d other people leverage your work?), instead of bringing to light any/all of your accomplishments and recognizing the true impact you made.
We need a union to protect us from those peverts.
Having just left Microsoft, I can tell you that stack ranking is still very much of their process.
Is it? I thought it went away. Also thought Microsoft was a place to “chill” these days.
Microsoft is no way a place to chill anymore especially Azure.