Company: IBM
Date: 2013-09-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

This year's extra effort is next year's baseline performance.
Pros: Excellent salary and benefits
Good employee perks
Up-to-date technology, if you can get to it
Cons: Work/life balance: 90% work, 10% life
If you do an extraordinary job this year, that will be your expected performance next year.  You are never good enough.
The US  work force gets smaller every year, and the workload increases every year.
There's a lot of emphasis on getting training, but never time to get away from your work long enough to actually get it.  Which counts as a failure, come annual review.