"Performance Based" Bonus

For those of you who got top bucket (or didn't):

How much of your bonus actually based on your performance (making an accurate and well formatted work product) versus other factors such as luck (being staffed on lucrative deals), face-timing, having a positive attitude, or just convincing everyone that you want to work for your firm forever and are not interviewing for PE??

curious and would appreciate reading some informed responses

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