{"id":8211,"date":"2013-11-12T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:10:28","slug":"stack-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/stack-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying Microsoft&rsquo;s Stack Ranking Performance Review System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.25hoursaday.com\/weblog\/2013\/11\/11\/StackRankingWhyAreAmazonFacebookAndYahooCopyingMicrosoftsPerformanceReviewSystem.aspx\">Dare Obasanjo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.25hoursaday.com\/weblog\/2013\/11\/11\/StackRankingWhyAreAmazonFacebookAndYahooCopyingMicrosoftsPerformanceReviewSystem.aspx\"><p>To summarize, so far it looks like Amazon and Facebook have fairly similar performance review structures as Microsoft much-lambasted system while Google seems to have a performance that seems to trade one set of problems for a different set. As an honorary mention, I&rsquo;d like to point to the QPR system recently put in place at Yahoo by Marissa Mayer which is also a vitality curve based system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2013-11-13): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/11\/12\/5094864\/microsoft-kills-stack-ranking-internal-structure\">Tom Warren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/11\/12\/5094864\/microsoft-kills-stack-ranking-internal-structure\"><p>Microsoft is killing off its controversial stack-ranking system today. While it could be viewed as an internal change that won&rsquo;t affect consumers directly, it will have a broad effect on current and future Microsoft employees that may just shape the future of the company. For years Microsoft has used a technique, stack ranking, that effectively encourages workers to compete against each other rather than a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/7\/12\/4516806\/one-microsoft-ballmer-reset-windows-windows-phone-xbox\"> collaborative Microsoft<\/a> that CEO Steve Ballmer is trying to push ahead of his retirement.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare Obasanjo: To summarize, so far it looks like Amazon and Facebook have fairly similar performance review structures as Microsoft much-lambasted system while Google seems to have a performance that seems to trade one set of problems for a different set. As an honorary mention, I&rsquo;d like to point to the QPR system recently put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-18T19:10:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"a8976f62-2ae5-459f-9605-a5c68bf441da","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-18T19:10:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqJdvYirlRZ-WBaXGi_RB2g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,101,1636,25,1240,882,37,683,459],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-employment","tag-facebook","tag-firing","tag-marissa-mayer","tag-microsoft","tag-stack-ranking","tag-yahoo"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}