Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2016-01-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

They are what they claim to be.
Pros: It's true, they value their people a lot. The work culture is great, specially the Technology Analyst Program (TAP) that they have for college graduates. It is simply the best, and the reason for that is the amazing training team who make it possible. Loads and loads to learn, which you even get to apply every day at work.

Apart from that, it is interesting to know how a bank of such a size still persists to keep it's spot in the market. The applications have many levels of support, and they are pretty serious about it. Only because they value their clients a lot. Even the smallest change that you do, requires reviewing and approval. And plus there's this huge chunk of data that you have to deal with. It's fun writing softwares that manage this data, it's a whole frontier altogether.
Cons: Like any other firm I suppose, there is dependency between teams. This gives rise to sort of a communication gap, specially if the teams are in different time zones. Sometimes you have to wait for the days, for something that might take you just a few hours.