"Stack ranking" is a controversial system of rating employees and laying off the poorest performers. Attorney Alykhan Sunderji, who spent almost nine years at Amazon, said the system can be helpful.

During its employee review process, Microsoft asks managers to adjust individuals' rankings based on where others on the team land to prevent too many from achieving the highest ranking and the pay ...

New internal details from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) reveal a controversial approach to deciding employee compensation that some insiders liken to the notorious ‘stack ranking’ system. The ...

Look around the office. For any group of five people you can easily figure out which person excels, which three are doing okay, and that leaves the person who’s a slacker by comparison. Microsoft has ...

Microsoft is abandoning a ranking system that has been blamed for hampering innovation and pitting employees against one another. Employees learned of the move in an email from Lisa Brummel, Microsoft ...

A manager at video game developer Blizzard Entertainment said he was ousted after refusing to give a low evaluation to an employee that he felt didn’t deserve it in order to fill a quota. In 2021, ...