Marsh reviews

The politeness can get in the way of getting work done. "I need this done TODAY dammit" would never be said and probably would not get the desired result. Career advancement gets "official" attention from HR and you get emails about it, but in practice it's all very vague, and they tend to fill higher positions from outside. They use a management-by-objectives set up for the bonus evaluation, where the corporate goals are spelled out, and we are supposed to identify activities to help meet those goals. It didn't work for me: my work had almost nothing to do with the very-high-level corporate goals (I was far from the top). I got a bad bonus after several years of good bonuses, when I got a new supervisor, who seemed to select me from the outset as the person he would ding that year. Managers have to put someone in the bottom category each year; I was it, that time.

Could get a little boring, but overall a great place to work