Comment by laweijfmvo

  > posted on LinkedIn her surprise at being lumped in with supposed low performers after receiving an “exceeds expectations” in her mid-year review.

FWIW, this is misleading. mid-year reviews only have three ratings: "below", "at or above", and "significantly above" expectations. a lot of employees like to correlate these to the end-of-year ratings (of which there are seven), but there is no such guarantee.