During its employee review process, Microsoft asks managers to adjust individuals' rankings based on where others on the team land to prevent too many from achieving the highest ranking and the pay ...

Look around the office. For any group of five people you can easily figure out which person excels, which three are doing okay, and that leaves the person who’s a slacker by comparison. Microsoft has ...

New internal details from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) reveal a controversial approach to deciding employee compensation that some insiders liken to the notorious ‘stack ranking’ system. The ...

Microsoft is abandoning a ranking system that has been blamed for hampering innovation and pitting employees against one another. Employees learned of the move in an email from Lisa Brummel, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has made headlines for mass layoffs in recent times, but former company engineer Dave Plummer has explained how things were done a quarter of a century ago – and what it was like living ...