big, bureaucratic, rampant cronyism, not a place for young, energetic, and ambitious - Software Engineer JPMorganChase Employee Review

3.0
25 Sept 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, salary, place to be if you are day-in day-out

Cons

I observed rampant cronyism to the point when a people with only a high school diploma and no technology background were accepted into IT Executive Director positions, just because of "networking". The JPMC also goes out of its way to discriminate against straight white males, by using race, gender, sex orientation as criteria for promotion. The IT in particular is overrun by immigrants from India because Chase signed exclusive agreements with TCS and Cognizant (Indian IT companies) to provide all consultants, who are then converted into FTEs. As a result, it is common to see 80% of the people on the floor are from India. Needless to say, it is just another form of discrimination.

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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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