appraisal shd be a mean appreciate their deeds to motivate & inspire employees to do better in future. but what happens is it is heavily driven by the company's yearly profit and their future strategies. if they want certain kind of professionals they wld gv u a gud hik, otherwise if ur domain is not promising for company, they wld simply make a mess out of ur appraisal. ---- this is da bare truth of Indian IT companies. by asim.