The Twinkle Effect - Manager JPMorganChase Employee Review

3.0
5 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great brand name, a well respected CEO, decent work-life-balance for some, loads of valuable training available for you to partake in your spare time and inapplicable mandatory training also, tech certification programs, solid work opportunities in the robotics space, ability to join new projects, and loads of opportunity to move around if you are lucky enough to get into the right cliche. Even though the company is not leading the industry in salaries, the pay/benefits are not bad and they have programs to support education, new mothers, etc.

Cons

After you get past the cool building amenities, hand crafted job titles that misrepresent the actual job, meaningless HR surveys, beautifully packaged propaganda about training and supporting employee development, diversity, and doing the right thing.... well there's not much substance to it all... like eating a Twinkle. It looks good, taste good, but there's little nutritional value. There's an unsettling amount of organizational changes, more than a reasonable amount and with little notice and no explanation. The internal pay/promotion structure is a Rubik's Cube that tilts slightly left of reasonable and is shrouded in secrecy, despite the masses repeatedly asking for the full picture. Basically the company is made of various groups and levels of management either doing their best to do what they think is right, doing what they think makes them look good, or doing what they want because there's little accountability for bad behavior or poor performance in management. There are good managers there, you just have to find them and hold on so if you just want a job or a resume builder, this should work.

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Cons

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Pros

They treat people well overall. It's all about connecting to others to get anything done, so if you're great with networking and maintaining connections it's a good place to work. Honestly the kindest layoff I've ever experienced, including genuine internal support to find another job. Still doing meaningful DOI work, including some of the best friendly benefits out there.

Cons

If you don't have a highly specialized cyber security skill set or work at a main campus in Texas, Ohio, Delaware, New York or New Jersey don't expect to ever move up the ladder. Staying focused on goals OR successfully communicating strategy pivots seems to be beyond most MDs in Global Technology. They seem to be having a re-org problem at the moment. I had 5 managers in the last 365 days I was there, hardly time to get any work done and then challenged at the end to show impact or delivery, all you can do is shrug and say 'tell me how, when you moved me every 2 months?"

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