Is there a list of companies (not small startups) without a stacked ranking perf review system? I know it’s pretty much the standard in most mid size/big tech companies around the Bay Area today, but there must be some companies with other performance review systems.
What is stacked ranking? Must not be that common.
It’s the system where a manager has to rank each employee according to a curve. Those at the bottom are either placed in performance improvement plans or fired.
Most Bay Area companies don’t have that.
Equifax
Netflix doesn't have performance reviews.
Yeah, they just fire people who aren't "keepers" immediately.
Name one company with stack ranking? I've never seen or heard of this.
Facebook, Google, Uber, Amazon, Groupon, etc
“Name one company with stack ranking?” Lol! I’m pretty sure Facebook stack ranks their employees. They may not fire you if you’re ranked as the Least Effective of your group, but your trajectory in terms of compensation and career growth is probably flat.
Facebook is indeed ranking right now https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/facebook-culture-cult-performance-review-process-blamed.html
I don't think Google has a forced curve that managers have to meet though I imagine there is a budget mechanism used to force choices of who gets top performance ratings. So that's looser than a real stack rank. FB and Amazon have "forced distribution" which still is more or less a stack rank. Netflix just fires anybody who is not a keeper immediately, which is harsher than a stack rank. Most companies have some sort of forcing function to go with their rating mechanism, though many don't do a full, strict stack rank these days.
Apple doesn’t have stack ranking.
Uber