J.P. Morgan Reviews

Cons

Pay rises are low and promotion process is very slow.

Cons

None although HR could have been more supportive on all levels.

Cons

Stressful, long hours, high staff turnover, no parking anywhere- hard to get to

Cons

Interaction is sometimes a bit awkward, they say I can ask them questions at any time, but in reality they're so busy they don't have time for me.

Cons

Long hours, learning is only based on internal ressources

Cons

It can be difficult to progress work across departments as it is such a large & complex organisation
Some staff seem to be there for the compensation and are that not interested in the work
Management structures across the business i.e. operations & product can make it difficult for teams to work together, and differing priorities can make it hard to work towards the same company goals

Cons

None at the moment

Cons

They put me in a department which I had not chosen so I didn't get good experience

Cons

Poor technical expertise on all levels. A lot of incompetent people even among team leaders. And even you are qualified enough you can be under the leader who don't know some basic computer science conception.

I know the people who lead the web app project without relation database knowledge. I mean at all. Can you imagine the code quality? Moreover in the same time the same person don't understand the principles the object oriented programming. I mean at all even such basic things like inheritance and interfaces. I have never seen such unqualified people.

Politics and meetings, meetings , meetings. A lot of bureaucracy, you need to get approvals for everything.

Chaotic management, very often project manager in US and available only by conference calls.

No architecture design as class, usually the only criteria "it should work, no matter how"
No algorithmic challenges, just stupid monkey coding like read from db / write to db and display something on web page. And because of this no learning and development for you.

Nobody care about how good are you as software engineer, it is much better to have strong communications skills. Looks like they don't need engineers. In the bank they need people who can demonstrate that they do something. So typical bank managers psychology. Performance review are more important that real work.

Forced visualization as mentioned on of the previous reviewers, yes. If you are linux /unix developer, you have to live on virtual machine.

Terrible overcrowded office. Often desks installed literally in the passages.
Once I have seen that 5 developers sitting on the 4 desks. Desks compression!

A lot of people -> difficult to find vacant toilet.
Difficult to find table in canteen during the lunch time.

Really I can't recommend this place for experienced engineers. If you want to concentrate on technical tasks this place is not for you. May be it depends the team. But my impression is like this.

Cons

nothing to improve on really