Say NO to stack ranking
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
You don’t. Lazy companies like to copy what other bigger companies are doing, regardless of whether it actually makes business sense. Cargo cults are alive and well in tech.
Workday is doing this now also. Coincidence it started once a lotta ex Amazon came?
Ha. Classic Amazon leadership takeover… :-)
Exactly - the Amazon disease is spreading
How is performance management done at Uber?
It came with the downturn of the market, Twitter layoffs, fall of SVB among other things. Once the market improves, it’ll go away hopefully—however, I firmly believe that PIPs need to be severely nerfed with the ability to take the company to arbitration and dispute the claim. I would also ban URA quotas of all kind, which terrible companies like Amazon use to fester toxic culture and negatively impact employees. TC: 105K
> I firmly believe that PIPs need to be severely nerfed with the ability to take the company to arbitration and dispute the claim. we are at will employees, at least in USA lol, company can just fire you.
Google had too many people coasting or working on side hustles… it was matter of time 🤷🏻♂️
Successful companies like GE use it though
Yeah, for factory work, not white collar jobs. It’s been misapplied for ever, there’s no real data science behind it, just a lot of VC and billionaire feels about it (which means it’s about keeping workers in line and not really about it being the best ROI)
That's the problem with Amazon hiring and firing so many people - the disease spreads
Create 100 successful tech companies that employ hundreds of thousands of tech workers so the labor market is tight again. Or form a union. Take your pick, loser.
stack ranking is everywhere. i suppose you could take the Jack Dorsey route as an alternative and fire the employee as soon as it's determined one has become ineffective in their role. pick your poison? idk.
The problem isn’t the ranking itself, it’s the forced bucket sizes. Dumbest thing I ever did was hire teams full of YoY TTs or other high performers, because suddenly 10% of them are going to have to be LEs. Amazon managers have to function like Microsoft Balmer managers did. Make sure you hire a few people who suck so that you can sacrifice them without impacting your own job - it’s awful, it’s sociopathic, and it’s one of the only ways to work this system without systemically traumatizing really good people who truly didn’t deserve their rating, but whom you had to “own the message” with or find yourself out on your ass.
Always there. More subtle.