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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by nappy-doo on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:17PM (#23025144)
I was a manager at FB for a couple of years. Basically, my first official act as a manager was firing someone. From there, it was pretty much, "find one person on your team per year to fire."

It was an extremely high performing team, and even the less talented engineers were still very good.

I quit rather than live in the culture.

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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by actuator on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:22PM (#23025204)
Was this similar to MS's infamous stack ranking system where some teammates will be always rated bad even if everyone is doing well?
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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by ra7 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:25PM (#23025236)
Yes, FB has a similar system.
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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by throwaway1777 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:01PM (#23025586)
That’s bullshit. FB does not stack rank.
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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by thewarrior on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:15PM (#23026486)
There is stack ranking at the org level. It’s all a bit hush hush but it’s there.
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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by nappy-doo on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:36AM (#23031241)
yes they do. I sat in multiple calibrations. They stack rank.
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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by toast0 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:56PM (#23026713)
Maybe not to the degree that Microsoft does (did?), but look into 'calibrations', which is similar.
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Re:Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results by mcharezinski on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:13AM (#23039525)
Did you lie to HN community to gain fame or it is actually true?
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