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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has made headlines for mass layoffs in recent times, but former company engineer Dave Plummer has explained how things were done a quarter of a century ago – and what it was like living ...

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 ...

Microsoft is killing off its controversial stack-ranking system today. While it could be viewed as an internal change that won't affect consumers directly, it will have a broad effect on current and ...

"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.

The employee-review system, which results in 10% of workers being classified as low performers, has appeal in the analytically inclined tech industry. But critics say it invites arbitrary judgments ...