Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2009-04-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

So much red tape, it's amazing anything gets done.
Pros: You can say you work at JPM Chase.  Benefits are good.  People are generally good, but sometimes not motivated.
Cons: Red tape, beauracracy, change is slow, slow, slow.  Massive paperwork required and 10-15 signatures required to get a simple change put in production.  Extremely stifling for someone who is results-driven, especially having come from a high-caliber shop.  Working off a lap top as opposed to a workstation is another horrible experience.  Frequent re- orgs.  Management outlines one policy, and several months later said manager is no longer at jpm.  Typical response to an outage is: 1) freeze on changes for an arbitrary period of time.  2) have endless meetings (on a call, almost never in person) 3) reveal post-mortem for which the action item is to add another signature to any change.