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Don't take it personally, managers at bigger companies have to evaluate their teams on a bell curve. The whole team can't score a 5 and someone has to be worse than the group.


It sounds like the fire starter should get the worse score. Of course, we’re only hearing one side of the story.


That is called stack ranking and even though it is used in a lot of companies it is widely considered a bad idea. A lot of large companies don't actually use it.




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