J.P. Morgan reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(23,997 total reviews)
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Jamie Dimon

78% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

J.P. Morgan has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 23,997 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The J.P. Morgan employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Sep 20, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Latest technologies, Pay is decent, Nice canteen and facilities, cab drops, company reputation.

Cons

Depending on the team, work-life balance can be horrible, like in my case. Never left office before 11 PM. Some work till 3 AM. HRs have no idea of work culture in a particular team. "Rarely you may have to stay a bit late" - is what they'd say before joining - Total BS. Managers form opinion even before you've started delivering. Lots of bias towards certain employees. Some employees are always right, some are always wrong. You'll be ignored deliberately in meetings. Your efforts will be ridiculed if you're not liked. Very unpredictable behavior from Manager. You get shouted for doing something one day, and for not doing the same thing other day. Reporting to multiple bosses - Each has their own agenda, mostly contradicting with each other. most of the time you get confused on what direction to take. Too much bureaucracy - to get a simple job done, there is a lot of process and approvals involved. Most of times you feel that you're chasing processes than getting work done. If something is successful, your Manager takes credit, something goes wrong - you're responsible. Too many meetings - most of them useless, you spend more than half day and most of your productive time in useless meetings. There are many more, but that's it for now.

4.0
Feb 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A lot of good things here. Decent pay, good bonus, great financial services problems to solve and make an impact with your work in banking and consequently in business world. The management has amazing leaders at the top right from CEO to level 5. No wonder this company is growing leaps and bounds and making a big difference in financial services world.

Cons

Work timings - With the overlap needed to work with US team it means most teams work from 12 PM to 9 PM ...which means by the time you get home, family is sleeping. For some people it doesn't matter, for some it does...for those who it does, it will impact your life in a non-subtle way. Figure out how you want to deal with it before you join. It means for 5 days your evenings are toast. But on the other hand it gives a lot of time at the start of the day to pursue your interests but the family is hardly at home during that time. That has been the only 1 big single con with this job.

2.0
Nov 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Big company/finance sector perks - Mostly good, friendly, genuine people - Great campus and facilities - Easy to transfer internally

Cons

- Heavy bureaucracy and politics to wade through - Lots of annual review/bonus driven people. Therefore lots of one-upmanship and power grabs - Easy to get trampled on if you don't have a backbone. - Mostly in-house software and processes, with non-transferrable skills to learn - Very short-term focused delivery. Tech debt is accumulated very quickly in order to appease higher ups and annual reviews - Technical stacks and projects are very set in their ways, but with enough immature tech thrown in the mix to become a nightmare - Lack of T-shaped devs, very much I-shaped (poor broad technical knowledge, good in narrower areas) - Poor Agile/Scrum implementation. Severe lack of POs/BAs. Often used as an excuse rather than a planning tool ("Remember, we're agile") - Pressure to be in the office more than core hours, even if nothing more to be done

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