On: Facebook Reports First Quarter 2020 Results

[nappy-doo]

I was a manager at FB for a couple of years. Basically, my first official act as a manager was firing someone. From there, it was pretty much, "find one person on your team per year to fire."

It was an extremely high performing team, and even the less talented engineers were still very good.

I quit rather than live in the culture.

[actuator → nappy-doo]

Was this similar to MS's infamous stack ranking system where some teammates will be always rated bad even if everyone is doing well?

[ra7 → actuator]

Yes, FB has a similar system.

[throwaway1777 → ra7]

That’s bullshit. FB does not stack rank.

[thewarrior → throwaway1777]

There is stack ranking at the org level. It’s all a bit hush hush but it’s there.

[nappy-doo → throwaway1777]

yes they do. I sat in multiple calibrations. They stack rank.

[toast0 → throwaway1777]

Maybe not to the degree that Microsoft does (did?), but look into 'calibrations', which is similar.

[mcharezinski → nappy-doo]

Did you lie to HN community to gain fame or it is actually true?