Katie Moussouris, a Microsoft engineer specializing in security issues, claims she was told during her May 2012 performance review that she’d had an outstanding year, and on a scale of 1 to 5 she’d earned the second-highest rating, a 2—but because of the number of employees who can get top ranks is capped, she got a 3 instead. The same thing happened in 2013.

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