On: My Microsoft Experience (2013)

[blazespin]

Yeah.

Stack ranking actually works, unlike the naysayers like you to think. The problem is that it works to good. You burn out your engineers killing themselves to avoid the yank and everything starts falling apart. Stack ranking is a lazy and uninspired technique that is the last resort of a CEO who can't excite the ranks with great ideas.

[ska → blazespin]

> You burn out your engineers killing themselves to avoid the yank and everything starts falling apart.

That's a odd definition of a system that "actually works"