Amazon's Controversial 'Hire to Fire' Practice Reveals a Truth About Management
The article somehow embraces tracking and targeting attrition yet acts surprised that the natural result is planned attrition.<p>This &quot;stuffing the deck&quot; used to happen at Microsoft too before they dropped stack ranking. It meant any fresh hire could never truly know if they passed interviews or if they were setup to fail. It is one of the many absurdities caused by stack ranking.<p>A good manager will collect and maintain a good team. Asking everyone to churn their teams means a healthy team of power players is just not allowed.<p>Beyond hiring to fire, having under performers is also a powerful tactic in stack ranking. It allows managers to reward their power members with more raises.<p>Frankly any aspect of stack ranking is a curse. It sounds great from the top level but currupts companies from the bottom up.