I forgot what it's like to have a formal yearly evaluation. My last job was too small and loosey-goosey to bother with anything beyond "you did a great job" or "you ducked that one up" at the quarterly staff meeting.
Now I'm having to do a "self-evaluation" which is preparation for the actual evaluation my boss will give me and which gets archived into my permanent record here, so to speak. I guess it's used to determine promotions, but I'm still so new about the best I can hope for is a pay upgrade/downgrade to overtime exempt (more base pay, but expected to work 40+ hours without thinking about it. Right now, I can leave my laptop at work since I don't go past quittin' time.)
Does your company do annual evaluations? The Internet seems to have mixed opinions of the process.