Performance reviews degenerating into assessment of "politics and networking" skills, as GP put it, is more common than people care to admit. Objectively evalu

Performance reviews degenerating into assessment of "politics and networking" skills, as GP put it, is more common than people care to admit. Objectively evaluating performance of somebody who is smarter than you is incredibly hard, and sliding into using "s/he is a nice person" metric instead, is an easy way to avoid that hard work.