Meta laid off high performers

True. I work in a team where everyone performs really well, because it's kind of impossible not to because of the stakes. But our leadership expects there to be someone in the bottom 5% every quarter. So we have to make stuff up and take turns in who's put in that.

I get that bottom 5% makes sense in some scenarios, but all nuance is lost. Enterprises rely on consistently when it's not always the right thing to do

It’s wild to me that companies have come up with a way to screw over employees as they see fit. If I worked the entire year and met expectations or exceeded them, and then got lower rating at the end of the year because of a single project or a couple of things that came up in the quarter, then I call bullshit. And I say quarter because when you get the rating it’s actually been almost another quarter of work done and if there were concerns in that quarter they can be raised during the mid year review discussion.

It’s not annual performance evaluation if you don’t evaluate the whole year.