Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Stack ranking forces all employees to be ranked on a bell curve. Most large tech companies still do some form of stack ranking today.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro (the General Electric story)
0:50 - What is stack ranking?
1:56 - Why stack ranking is unpopular now
3:40 - How companies still do stack ranking
5:10 - What you should do as an employee
6:13 - The importance of your manager