"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.

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 ...

Meta may be cutting 8,000 jobs, but one laid-off engineer isn't mourning his exit. In a viral post on X, he slammed Meta's ...

In leaked messages, Salesforce's CEO toned down a proposal to do an annual 5% stack ranking. CEO Marc Benioff said the company would instead "exit" underperformers, reward high performers. He also ...

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 ...

Tech workers who survived layoffs this year will likely face tougher performance reviews next year. Salesforce and Meta are asking managers to tag 10% to 15% of people on teams as low performers. CEOs ...

Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to streamline Meta's reporting structure are ongoing. The company has hundreds of VPs and is looking to whittle the number down, sources say. Executives are subject to stack ...