Yahoo employees griping about forced rankings
An HR problem has become a PR problem after internal message board posts about rankings on a ‘bell curve’ have become public.
It is 100% true that managers are told they need to put someone in occasionally misses to meet the distribution. It is not a cop out, as you mention. We are told, very clearly, that we have to rank someone low. So, forced ranking is in place, regardless of what Marissa thinks is happening. Maybe it’s not supposed to happen — but Marissa needs to make this very clear to upper management before they have us force rank next time.
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