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1st year at V10. I’m at a firm where, for reviews, they provide all the matters that you’ve worked over X hours on and then they tell you to fill in which associates you’ve worked under and are best suitable to review you. I honestly feel like I’ve done a shitty job (attention to detail, stupid mistakes, etc.). Should I be strategic about this in who I select (i.e., choose the associate who likes me more only, assuming multiple) or should I just select all of them to get more array of feedback?

At my V10 these reviews were completely meaningless. At the actual review, a partner would glance at the written feedback for all of about 10 seconds, talk to you for a few minutes about whatever he or she felt like talking about (career development, general advice for how to be a better associate, other random topics that came up) and that was it. The few times they got rid of a junior for incompetence, it had nothing to do with the review process.

Agreed that these are generally meaningless until they look for a reason (e.g., stealth layoff). You have control over who you select and I wouldn’t let my guard down and pick someone who will give a bad review. Plus, it may remind said senior associate of your mistakes and you want them to forget that. Plus, the feedback from those would be pretty much what you summarized for us, right? I wouldn’t let someone put any dent in my reputation (especially in writing) whether warranted or not.