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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by ctkrohn on Monday January 17, 2011 @06:02PM (#2113825)
Doesn't seem like he's calling Facebook a fraud. But Enron had a famously superstar-driven culture. In particular, they had a fairly strict employee ranking system. Every year, each employee would be assigned a quintile based on performance. The top 20% of performers would always get raises, and the bottom 20% would always get fired. Sounds like a great system in theory, but from what I hear from people who were there, it led to a poisonous and cutthroat culture. Not sure if the same will happen to Facebook, but there certainly are some dangers.
Re:How Facebook Ships Code by ulf on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @06:59AM (#2115473)
The problem with that is the relative performance. If you have no shot at being top 20% all you need to do to survive is pick one of four peers and "outperform" him or her. No wonder cutting throats occurred...