The Shitty Stack System
tryingtruly.substack.com
How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration.
  • PenguinJuice
    32•2 years ago

    Oh wow! This actually likely explains why Microsoft was not doing well during the early 2000’s. Their employees weren’t trying to be creative or innovative, they were just trying to keep their jobs.

  • @mikeyBoy14English
    14•2 years ago

    Interesting topic, but the article’s writing style is god-awful and a bit hard to get through.

    • ReallyKinda
      10•2 years ago

      Here is another article on the subject, ctl f “At the center of the cultural problems”

      • ReallyKinda
        4•2 years ago

        I had a prof in college that graded like this (in an intro level geology class lol) and it made the atmosphere brutal. I don’t remember the exactly distribution but top x% got As bottom x% got Fs.

          • ReallyKinda
            2•2 years ago

            Yeah, I’ve done a lot more school since and never seen it in another course. Shitty person I suppose.