How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration

https://lemmy.world/post/2341485

How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration - Lemmy.world

Interesting topic, but the article’s writing style is god-awful and a bit hard to get through.
Just like the evaluation system!
Here is another article on the subject, ctl f “At the center of the cultural problems”
How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline

Since 2000, Microsoft has lost its lead—and its mojo. With the tech giant’s future in question, Kurt Eichenwald computes how bad C.E.O. Steve Ballmer has been for business.

Vanity Fair
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.
Waterfall grading curves are the dumbest of ideas, especially for an entry level course.
Yeah, I’ve done a lot more school since and never seen it in another course. Shitty person I suppose.
Keeps loading another article as I try to read.
Weird, here’s the 12ft version.
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That works for some reason, thank you. Not sure linking was the issue, just that the website does a redirect after a while for whatever reason.