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Amigosito t1_iwsqjgn wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers by ThisIsNotCorn

Amazon does this across-the-board for all employees. They call it “the bar”; if you’re below it, you’re being managed out. Every time they bringing a new employee who “raises the bar”, an existing employee falls “below the bar”. Or sometimes they will hire people “below the bar” just to fire them and set an “example.”

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LordTC t1_iwss7cv wrote

Amazon has stack ranking which requires managers to fire a certain percentage of their team each year (often 10%). Because of this if you are happy with your current team you hire people in order to fire them.

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SomeDudeNamedMark t1_iwsxl76 wrote

That is such an incredibly shitty thing to do.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by it, but damn...

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DaiTaHomer t1_iwt8rs5 wrote

What they do is game this system by hiring people for the express purpose of later firing to keep the moronic management that is Amazon from messing up their teams.

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SlowMotionPanic t1_iwt9hoq wrote

Stack ranking, aka forced distribution, should be illegal. Funny that the companies that pioneered it in America inevitably left it by the wayside after each lost massive class action suits against them for the practice.

Because of that, many of these companies will bend over backwards to avoid using the terms even though it is precisely descriptive.

The people who need to be managed out are all of upper management and their HR enablers. Workers should have a say in how their company is run but a lifetime of capital class propaganda has made people have automatic negative responses to things like that. Like Pavlov ringing a bell for his dogs.

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davebowmanandhal t1_iwuqzlq wrote

I thought this type of jack welch GE management nonsense was shown not to work all that well.

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Drakonx1 t1_iwv77pl wrote

It was, and they teach you that in business school, but that's basically immediately untaught when you get out into the world because execs don't care about data if it conflicts with their feelings.

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davebowmanandhal t1_iwvfl5h wrote

Lol this is absolutely true. They think they’re hard headed business people, but they have a porcelain ego.

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Coyotesamigo t1_iwtfbef wrote

My bro in law hires people just to protect his team. Nuts

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Amorougen t1_iwuko32 wrote

I've done this and hated it. Another example of forced ranking.

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