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there isn't really a stack rank, and they're pretty careful about not fitting performance into predetermined quota buckets. honestly i think attrition will get the numbers down fairly quickly, although unfortunately probably pretty evenly distributed among good and bad engineers.

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> there isn't really a stack rank, and they're pretty careful about not fitting performance into predetermined quota buckets

That's what I thought too, but then in my first PSC as a manager when I was there I was added to a spreadsheet called "<org name> stack rank", where we had to rank everyone rated as Meets All, because we were 3 people short of our quota for <= Meets Most

If you have differentiated rewards, you have a stack rank. They might not call it that or leave some flexibility in evaluating it but rest assured it is there.

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