I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at JPMorganChase (Tampa, FL) in May 2020
Interview
Total incompetence from top to bottom. Think twice before dealing with these jokers! It started for one position then the recruiter calls and says the position was canceled the day before the interview, but he has other positions. This was the first sign I should have bailed. I had to do four video interviews, that's right four spread over two months! At the end of all that the recruiter says, oops, I thought you took the online test. Are you kidding me? After being hammered on a team interview and passing I have to take the test I should have taken at the beginning? This was the next sign I should have bailed, but the incompetence continues.
Now on to the fun stuff. You get to answer a bunch of personal stuff (like are you out?) in the newly upgraded me@jpmc portal. One of the neat new features is the “Too many objects match the primary key oracle.jbo.Key” errors requiring you to exit and reenter the portal. I had to do this several times. This is the type of junk a multi-billion dollar company produces. They used BIG to do the background check. I entered all the information exactly from my previous background check, so I had all dates to the day. I had to upload W2s for self employment, etc. Then JPMC per-employment calls and asks for my W2s. I told them I already sent them to BIG. They said we haven’t received the results yet. I send them using JPMC’s “secure” email from the 1990s. They lose my documents. Yes, a bank loses sensitive personal documents, so I resend them again. This happened several times. They send you to get finger printed, etc. for the I9 stuff. That was third party like BIG, so that actually went smooth. Maybe the only thing during the entire process.
So after 3.5 months I tell the recruiter I’m done because the per-employment folks keep bugging me for more information about college. There was a lot more incompetence with these clowns, but I’ll save you from the agony. If you really want to know the pain then apply yourself and go through what I did. Also, a friend that has worked there for several years told me not to apply. I should have listened.
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Typical Java patterns, threading, Optional, AutoClosable, functional programming, etc. That was about the only interesting part of the whole process.
Was given a leetcode problem within the first 4 mins of the interviewer. Wish I was making this up. Interviewers did not really introduce themselves besides names, straight to the code problem.The interview felt extremely cold. No soul, no passion, no discussion
Asked very scripted questions and everyone took a lot of notes. I really enjoyed the people I spoke with and they really made me think about the role and my past
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How could you see your past experience supporting you in this role as AI uses proliferate.
I applied online. I interviewed at JPMorganChase (New York, NY) in June 2026
Interview
Asked a few questions about C++ via a word doc. The interviewer was very rude from the beginning of the interview. He seemed to be angry at me for even being in the interview and taking his time. This person should not be giving interviews. Maybe he wanted to yell at someone who couldn't yell back. Very unprofessional, I ended the interview early because I was so upset.
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How would you optimize this data structure for cache hits?
What is SFINAE?