Your problem was a manager that did not like you not the performance review process. In a small company without impersonal processes that can be only worse (or

Your problem was a manager that did not like you not the performance review process. In a small company without impersonal processes that can be only worse (or maybe better because you'd be fired earlier - fail fast after all - but in the big company you could leave once you learned the fact about your manager on your own).