Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance?

jmcbain writes "I'm a former Microsoftie, and one thing I really despised about the company is the 'stack ranking' employee evaluation system that was succinctly captured in a recent Vanity Fair article on the company. Stack ranking is basically applying a forced curve distribution on all employees at the same level, so management must place some percentage of employees into categories of overperforming, performing on average, and underperforming. Even if it's an all-star team doing great work, some folks will be marked as underperforming. Frankly, this really sucked. I know this practice gained popularity with GE in the 1980s and is being used by some (many?) Fortune 500 companies. Does your company do this? What's the best way to survive this type of system?"

Comments

Quit

[Anonymous Coward]

You are an idiot. Don't put up with that shit. Vote with your feet and quit your job. Stop being a bitch.

I remember the old days...

[pedantic bore]

It doesn't seem that long ago that if someone posted a duplicate story to slashdot they'd need to wait more than thirteen hours.

Have we really run out of other things to bash Microsoft about?

Re:Easy answer for non-americans

[dkleinsc]

You are either from the USA or bizarrely uninformed - possibly both.

I thought the one implied the other.