Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2014-08-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good salary and benefits but layers of bureaucracy are stifling
Pros: Good salary and benefits.  Management seems open and fair and strictly adheres to firm-wide policies.  In this global mega-corporation you can easily move to other jobs within the firm.
Cons: Super-paranoid and extremely risk-adverse. If you are doing software development,  you will be hindered by the fact that all the hardware is strictly locked down and access tightly controlled. Getting almost anything done, no matter how trivial, requires a formal electronic request that must be approved by several layers of management. There is a Risk organization that constantly comes up with new restrictions they can put into a place that end up making your job more difficult. (e. g., recycling bins were removed from everywhere because of the risk that someone might throw confidential docments into the recycling rather than the shredder, forcing everyone to dispose of all recycling in the shredder.

Work/life balance doesn't appear to one of the firm's principles.  You are expected to make yourself available at all times.