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.
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.