There are many things that could be said, I guess, but a good and concise summary would be, "Trust your gut reaction."
If/When you get into such meetings, if you feel uncomfortable -- not that you have goals to meet, but with respect to the natures of the goals, measurements, and feedback, itself -- trust your reaction.
In my corporate experience, all of this ultimately goes to serve Human Resources (HR). And, contrary to the impression some newer employees can have and that HR itself often fosters, HR DOES NOT serve the interest of the employee. They are there solely to staff and to protect the organization.
Much of the performance review process serves to produce documentation they can subsequently use to justify whatever action they decide to take. Note that such actions may not actually correspond or respond to your real performance.
Hopefully, you'll end up with a good manager that will help you grow and understand the system. But, that is your direct management. THAT is the critical decision.
I had one manager who was like that. Things were good, until they early-retired him out. I basically consolidated the work of a 5 department team down to one person -- me -- as we continued to go through layoffs. Done in substantially less time and with substantially less errors, more flexibility, and a complete change-over, with much greater complexity and variability, in the underlying data.
I received an award. And another time, that manager, before he was retired out, just showed up at my desk one day with an unsolicited 12% raise, because "I was doing the work." In the midst of a company-wide pay freeze.
But when they were done with me, I received a very cold stare from our HR manager as I passed her in the hall one day, and the next I was out.
Trust your gut. Not any "performance review" process. You need to respond to and manage the process, as it unfolds. But you trust your gut.
P.S. Yes, I should have gotten out a lot sooner. I had basically become a "workaholic" to avoid a lousy home circumstance and personal life. Another lesson to learn and avoid.