Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2016-04-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

High turnover of I.T. staff in London
Pros: - Very good work/life balance
- Satisfactory compensation
- Business generally happy with products delivered.
- Little firefighting
Cons: - The past few years have seen a heavy restructuring of teams. Many people have come and gone at both senior and junior levels. My manager has changed several times and so have their managers and so on.
- Difficult promotion process that relies on juniors really needing to get to know a handful of seniors who might ordinarily be too busy or too new to understand what's going on.
- No mentoring or professional development plan. Appraisal system has had empty objectives for the past few years.
- Technology 5-10 years behind but the managers don't know it and are reluctant to change.
- Very heavy management hierarchy with reporting lines spread across the globe and poor communication and relationships from top down.