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Internal Amazon documents show the company has a five-tiered ranking system for employee performance reviews and expects managers to rank 20% of employees at the top level, 75% in the middle tiers, and 5% in the bottom tier. More than half a dozen employees who spoke with Insider said the tier system was evidence of stack ranking, a controversial performance-review system in which employees are evaluated on a curve and a certain percentage must rank at the bottom — which could hurt both an em...

Getty Images / Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Amazon starts notifying employees this month about future compensation, based on annual reviews. The performance review process is opaque, but leaked documents and interviews reveal new insights. Employees say Amazons performance review has cutthroat elements of a stack-ranking ...