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It's easy to think that you wouldn't, but in practice many companies have stack ranking systems that are effectively more or less equivalent, and encourage employees to game the system rather than just to do good work. But they are cloaked with more layers of bureaucracy which disguise their natures better.



Stack/Rank is the primary reason why I have never responded to Microsoft recruiters over the years. It results in teams being torn apart as they each try to force someone else to be the "5". And dysfunctional behavior like intentionally hiring a 5 in order to protect the other team members. So you never know if they're hiring you because they want what you can bring to the company, or because the manager needs a sacrificial lamb that year.




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