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I'll preface this with, I like my current job. But here's how they do merit review:

• It's a 1-5 rating scale. They've come out and said, no one is deserving of a 5, no matter how much you do. So it's really a 1-4 rating scale.
• They give final ratings based on a forced bell curve. An example of this, I'm on a small team of 8. My boss straight up told me, even if he doesn't think any of us are doing a poor job, he has to rate one of us as "underperforming" on every review cycle.
• Merit increases are a fixed percentage. Let's say I'm rated a 3, and someone else is rated a 3, but they're really like a 3.5, even though we don't do fractions. Basically in my bosses eyes, the 3.5 performed better. We still get the same raise.

So yeah, I do as little as possible to get by, and keep myself out of the underperforming firing line.