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More broadly, Amazon employees told Insider that despite the moves toward transparency, the company's performance-review system continued to be vague and confusing, with some saying that it includes elements of "stack ranking" — a managerial practice that Microsoft stopped using in 2013 in the wake of widespread criticism that it led to a cutthroat corporate culture that fanned the flames of office politics and stifled innovation.

"It's a step in the right direction," one current manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly, said of the changes. "But they shouldn't be putting people through stack ranking."

Stack ranking broadly refers to any system in which teams are reviewed on a curve, with employees ranking at the bottom often getting put on performance-improvement plans. Critics have said this practice leads to even high performers getting penalized if they rank just slightly lower than their peers.

Amazon managers use a secret rating tied to compensation to grade on a curve, according to employees and internal documents, placing those at the bottom on a performance-improvement plan. One document viewed by Insider shows company leaders "expect 20% of Amazonians" to receive the highest rating and 5% to receive the lowest for the current review cycle.

While the wording of the document leaves room for ambiguity in interpretation, over half of the employees who spoke with Insider compared Amazon's performance review system to stack ranking. Amazon has 1.3 million employees, many of whom work outside the company's corporate workforce, and it's unclear how much performance reviews vary across teams.

The BBC has come under fire for excluding people from a white-ethnic background from applying for a traineeship.

In the criteria for the job with BBC Newsbeat, it states that the traineeship is only open to candidates from a black, Asian or non-white ethnic minority background.

The trainee multimedia journalist position has been offered through the social enterprise Creative Access, which aims to get better representation for people from ethnic minority backgrounds in the creative industries.

Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra aimed at 16-25 year-olds.

The advert says that Newsbeat 'is the ideal environment for this type of gradual multi-media training that is so rewarding to experience early in a journalism career.' It also says that the successful candidate will taught how a busy newsroom works, broadcast journalism skills and video editing skills.

However, the advert has caused outrage after it was posted on the BBC Newsbeat Twitter page and has been accused of being 'racist'.

Actress Vicki McKellar said: 'Why do you think that ethnic minorities need a special leg up? That is not only patronising, it's also racist. It's also racist against white people.

'Get the best person for the job regardless of skin colour.'

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