At the end of the day a perf review is storytelling. Learn to tell a good story and reviews will be good to you.
It sucks that getting a good or bad review is dependent on factors outside the actual work. But it is what it is. No one disputes that employees should be rewarded for the quality of their work. That’s an effectively unsolvable problem so companies do the best they can.
A bigger goal would be to achieve independence and then get people help you pursue your creative goals! In which case you likely want a system to assess how much those helpers are helping…
At the end of the day a perf review is storytelling. Learn to tell a good story and reviews will be good to you.
It sucks that getting a good or bad review is dependent on factors outside the actual work. But it is what it is. No one disputes that employees should be rewarded for the quality of their work. That’s an effectively unsolvable problem so companies do the best they can.