Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2018-03-05
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Depends on your team and manager...
Pros: JPMC is very big and if you don't like your current role and/or manager you can easily move around. I hated the first team I was on, but had a great manager. However, I did not like the way the upper management was running the place so I started to talk to many other departments to find a role and team that I thought would be a better fit to switch out. I am a lot happier now and on a great team!
Cons: If you  do happen to be in a bad department... the environment can get toxic... you can tell everyone hates coming into work and everyone openly talks about leaving the department, either internally or externally (this department at JPMC is called JPMIS - JP Morgan Intelligent Solutions).... It got so bad that, at a work happy hour, a former employee (who left JPMC and joined capital one), came to the happy hour with a capital one recruiter to try to help others leave... 

JPMIS was suppose to be department of internal data science consultants, however, it is run by a bunch of bankers who have no technical backgrounds and no understanding of the machine learning and AI space... they cannot lead in this space successfully because they have no understanding of what their data scientists can do and do not talk t the data scientist to learn about their abilities or recommendations. They make promises to internal clients about what work can be done and with a made update, all wihtout consulting the people who are actually going to do the work, the data scientists. It's a place that's bound to fail. They hired a guy from Microsoft to run their AI team and already, within a year he left. Also, since they are bankers, there is a lot more of politics than getting work done... If you get an offer from JPMIS either join and stick it out for a year and switch internally  of just RUN!