[JamesBarney]

Almost everyone I know manager or not is usually ranking everyone they work with on various attributes.

In fact it would be incredibly weird to ask a close friend who at their work kicks ass and who sucks and have them respond back, "I've never really thought about how good any of my coworkers were at their jobs"

[whstl]

I am a manager and I don't mentally stack rank my reports.

That's not out of respect or anything, but because they're all good. I hired and mentored them, and they all passed probation.

Sure there are junior devs who are just starting, but they're getting paid less, so they're pulling their weight proportionately. They're not worse.