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Somehow I ended up getting a perfect score in every category, which in my company is not typical and I was given pretty much no feedback.

I'm confident my manager was scolded for the score he gave me by his boss or hr.

Ever since he's given me the most middle of the road scores . The only take away I've gotten from this experience is that performance reviews in my company are more political then actually reflective of your performance.

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This really gets me:

  I was given pretty much no feedback

This is exactly what happened to me a few years back. I was so eager for that review since we had all our KPIs recorded and I knew I had a perfect record, and all I heard was something along the lines "I have nothing bad to say". In that review, my manager said my results would warrant at least an A, and a promotion would probably be on the way. Probably.

A few weeks later I received a letter with my C rating, and I left the company a few months later.

I once had an interesting review: "Ordinarily if someone had given me this list of accomplishments I would give them I very good review. But I just don't like you". Sometimes reviews serve you well in ways you don't expect ;-) Especially when you are at the start of your career, you don't always twig that the place you are working in is completely dysfunctional.

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