Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by Consultant32452 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:23PM
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In my experience the biggest problem with stack ranking is that it's not easy to update. I mentored a developer and he skyrocketed from the bottom of the stack to near the top in real terms over the course of two years. But he could never escape his "reputation" as a lower tier person. He left, over two years quadrupled his income, and now I work for him. I doubled my income.
Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by oblio on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:36PM
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> He left, over two years quadrupled his income, and now I work for him. I doubled my income.
This is such an American story :-)
I don't think there's any other developed country where you can remain an individual contributor, a developer, and quadruple your income in 2 years. Heck, in most other developed countries the whole salary range for a profession is about 2x, from the lowliest junior developer to the highest senior developer. To make more you'd have to become a consultant, so basically start your own company, which is an entirely different kettle of fish.
Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by Consultant32452 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:33PM
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>To make more you'd have to become a consultant
My name checks out :)
The first iteration can work very well. But what about the next iterations? People will adapt to the process and change their behavior.
Under stacked ranking, if you are interviewing someone brilliant that can potentially be the strongest member on your team, is it in your best personal interest to hire that person?
The answer is: no. Because if you add high performance members to your team, with each iteration of stacked ranking not only it will be harder for you to be promoted, but you will be closer to being terminated.
So what ends up happening is that people hire the worst possible candidates, which defeats the purpose of stacked ranking. With stacked ranking, instead of iterating towards stronger people, you iterate towards mediocre, political people.