In Engineering, how much of stack ranking is based on actual individual performance vs. tenure, likeability, buddy/buddy system, etc.? How can one even prove this?
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None of the stacked ranking is based on performance that’s exactly the issue. Ford mandated 30% of workers be rated the lowest rating.
Even if 100% of them did their jobs well and met all objectives, 1/3 of them got a bad rating
That’s why they added the “behaviors “ as a metric. It’s really hard to prove someone didn’t meet their objectives and deliverables when they did. It’s much easier to say “how” they did it was “inconsistent” which just means subjective non fact based random bs
It’s all a popularity contest
Oh, it’s all about Friends and Family here. If you are good with your LL5 and above, then nothibg matters. On the ither hand, if your LLs don’t like you, you can be the best performer on your team and they still will ding you on your performance with any excuse.
At Ford the buddy system is the way to go. Top engineer gets canned, sh!tty one gets to stay because of LL5.