Toxic culture shock - Anonymous employee JPMorganChase Employee Review

3.0
6 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Made good friends. Nice cafeteria options.

Cons

Title worship. Toxic middle-managers in tech. Absent leadership who only wants to be put on a pedestal and worshipped. A lot of busy work. Manual, tedious and draining workload. Lots of people who talk a lot of technical nonsense about architecture but don’t have the skill to back it up. Just the title.. They want a blend of toxic and skill based personality in leadership that keeps the alpha culture going ( could be male female or other person that is driving this alpha culture of a bygone era). I went in to jpmc as a confident person but came out in about a year with low self-esteem and always second guessing my decisions ( my manager would micromanage, yell, talk down to me in front of others).

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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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