How Microsoft's human resources culture drove away talent
theguardian.com
theguardian.com
It doesn't; this is a two year old article that suggests that Microsoft's old review system ("stack ranking") was flawed. Which is a fine position, and this was a well-written criticism, despite being old news when it was written, but it doesn't hold up so much after the changes HR made to the review model. (Disclaimer: MSFT employee.)
Do you have a link to anything public about this? I've only read negatives about stack ranking and MSFT HR. It would be nice to read about how they've changed their evil ways.
What I have not seen is any substantial discussions about the new system recently, which would be useful since the FY has now wrapped and we have had our first review under the new system.
Speaking only for myself, I don't really know how different the new system is than the old system, but I also didn't see a lot of problems in the old system. This may be because my group is somewhat odd (we're not in Redmond.)