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25 Sep 2025
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Which department has the most top performers?

Departments with the most top performers to prioritize talent development.

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Top Performer Insights — Where are our top performers located?

Top performers significantly drive the success of your company. Here you can analyse which departments they are particularly well represented in. This allows you to identify strengths, identify best practices and develop targeted strategies to promote talent and improve performance across the company.

What does it mean to analyze which department has the most top performers?

The analysis shows in which departments the highest-performing employees are concentrated.
It helps HR teams and managers identify strengths within the company, use targeted talent development and transfer best practices from particularly successful teams.

Which department has the most top performers?

Based on the data, I can give you the following insights about the top performersWithin by department, give:

Absolute Figures for Top Performersinside

Most Top Performersinside (each 8 people) Can be found in:

  • Quality Assurance and Testing
  • DevOps and IT Infrastructure

Followed by:

  • Data Science With 6 Top Performers
  • Sickness With 5 Top Performers
  • Customer Success With 4 Top Performersinside

Relative performance ratio

Particularly impressive is the Performance ratio (share of top performerswithin the entire workforce):

  • Data Science: 21.4% (6 out of 28 employees)
  • Quality Assurance and Testing: 21.6% (8 out of 37 employees)
  • DevOps and IT Infrastructure: 22.9% (8 out of 35 employees)
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: 42.9% (3 out of 7 employees)

Conclusion

Absolut Do most top performers sitInside in Quality Assurance and Testing and DevOps and IT Infrastructure.

Relatively Shows department size Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning The Highest Concentration of Top PerformersInside, followed by the DevOps, Quality Assurance and Data Science Technical Departments.

The tech departments clearly dominate when it comes to peak performance!

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