Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff
by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:39PM
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Hum... To me that sounds like the cohorts have fixed sizes, but the top management will break the rules for their friends.
Anyway, even if it honestly for "extraordinarily talented" people, that's still stupid stack-ranking.
Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff
by strulovich on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:01PM
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Then you misunderstood.
The same you’d rank a person’s work, you would rank a team or org’s work.
If that team is doing really well, it’s likely they will have a distribution of higher rankings than the average. If they’re doing really bad, it can be the opposite.
The point is that if you finished ranking some team and your rankings are higher than average, you need to have a reason why.
What makes a ranking into a stack ranking?
You do get to see the average size of cohorts, and you will need to explain why your team doesn’t meet them - for example if the entire team project is going exceedingly well, or the team is really made out if a lot of extraordinarily talented people - then you can argue why you have more than the average rate of excellent rankings.