We have stack ranking and sometimes, I see my colleagues letting in bad candidates so that we have scape goats for next layoff. Is there any advantage of compulsory layoff with stack ranking within teams? This is in one of large big tech company. I used to be in coupang but not now.
How does performance management work at Datadog? Is there any stack ranking? #datadog @datadog
At capital one, the leadership decides beforehand the distribution for performance buckets. For example last year, they decided at least 12% would get Inconsistent rating and placed on PIP. The calibration process consists of the managers all getting together and bickering about which employee need...Read more
What is to best strategy to survive in stack ranking? How can I game the system? I am new to stack ranking game and our perf is coming soon. I am planning to write bad to slightly bad reviews for my peers and a bad review for my manager. My strategy is to hope they would write good feedback for me...Read more
Each manager has to meet quota for marking LEs. I have been put on dev list as well. This places sucks!! Just to give more context. Amazon has 2 rating systems. One is used during your perf similar to other companies. Other is hidden from you and only managers know about it. It only has 3 categorie...Read more
It seems clear that Google and a number of other tech companies are adopting Amazon's stack ranking model for performance reviews. For those who got MI (or whatever the second worst rating is there) twice in a row at Amazon, is it possible to actually recover from this? Or is this an inevitable path...Read more
Since when did stack ranking become so common? I thought this disease was restricted to Amazon. Now all of a sudden Google is doing it too. How do we put this genie back in the box? tc: 450
Okay, anyone that has been out for a while now, can you please just put this argument to rest and tell us that OLR means "stack ranking?" YOE 14 TC 210 #tech #amazon
Please give names of companies who do stack ranking for software engineers. Is this within a team or across org ? Among employees in same level or across levels ?
I have been stressed out everyday, losing too much sleep! Stack ranking is real and if you are bottom x percentage, see you! I am on a mortgage, monthly repayment is like 12k. I can’t stand if I lose my job. I have been working 10hours a day, 6 days a week. And still stressed out. I am feeling burn...Read more
Hi, Can Atlassian folks elaborate what stack ranking is at Atlassian? Does it get applied to P50 as well or is it only for lower levels? How many P50 can be present in a team? #engineering #swe #layoff
Just read about Atlassian introducing stack rankings of employees after a new CTO joined. Is Atlassian the next Amazon ? 🤔 Which other companies have this stack ranking policy ?
Hearing of it being introduced this year, is this actually happening? Is it 5%/10% for PIP/layoff? Any other concrete actions by the ex-Meta guy so far? Sucks to hear about this crap still proliferating. #atlassian
Does %subject% override leadership principles/superpowers in performance reviews? If so, bad managers would abuse stack ranking (tag 'em `LE`) despite good performance. Have you come across this? This encourages team politics/brown nosing, not performance.
Please share the name of your company if they use a performance review system with forced "bell curve" distribution, or prescribed quotas for below strong rating levels. Why does this matter? "Curve-based employee rankings mean even good workers can end up ranking in the bottom tier, which can adv...Read more
It would be fine to calibrate people against each other but throwing ppl under the bus to achieve un regretted attrition quota is weird. I cannot understand how Amazon is going to attract tech talent with this brutal stack ranking mechanism.
I heard rumors that performance reviews at Google have become harder ie more people calibrated to be in the bottom in the curve. Are people at bottom automatically on Sci or pip? TC 200K