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Don't Call It Stack Rank: Yahoo's QPR System For Culling Non-Performers
An anonymous reader writes "Employees don't like to be graded on the bell curve (or any other curve except for Lake Wobegon's) — we know that from the Microsoft experience. But Yahoo is struggling with what some say is vastly bloated headcount, and CEO Marissa Mayer has implemented a 'quarterly performance review' system that requires, or strongly recommends, that managers place a certain quota of their charges in the less-than-stellar categories. That sounds a lot like the infamous GE-Microsoft stack rank system. But according to AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, who (as usual) broke the latest story about life inside Mayer's Yahoo, Mayer's curve may more similar to the elaborate evaluation system used by her old employer, Google."
Unless you're in the 70s jeans industry. Then everybody's into the bottom bell curves. :P
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
This method would have fired Pauli and Born because they ranked 'ranked' below Einstein, Heisenber, Shroedinger and Bohr.
They were about to, but then Heisenberg pointed out that it was impossible to determine both the strength of the group and the rank of an employee within the group, at the same time.