This article is spot on. The perception of your immediate manager makes or breaks the performance review. The same code will receive glowing reviews if written

This article is spot on. The perception of your immediate manager makes or breaks the performance review. The same code will receive glowing reviews if written by a dev held in higher regard while will be used as a weapon against someone not held in high regard. Here's one more: A bottleneck reported by someone held in high regard is taken as observant while the same bottleneck reported by some not so highly values will be considered a complaint. Managers just look after their own agendas. It's often just better to find another boss and let the insecure manager crumble as more and more of the team leaves. Really good managers can get past these biased behaviors, even if it comes at the expense of their own appearance of "correctness". Find the right boss. If they don't want to help you. Move to another team. Don't suck it up for incompetent leadership.