Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2015-04-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

My experience is strictly in the retail bank. You will definitely succeed if you are pleasantly unambitious.
Pros: If you are inexperienced and open to learning the basics of sales this is a great starting point. You will learn scripted behaviors and banking regulations. If you are ok watching unskilled micromanagers coach employees to tears, you will enjoy working here.  There is opportunity to move laterally. There are branches everywhere.
Cons: I speak only from my personal experience working in two branches. In my observation, the lower-to-middle management inhibits career growth in their employees. Most especially if the employee is an ambitious woman.  I compared my review with a male coworker and we found that he was described as assertive and I was abrasive in same situation. My year-end bonus (at manager's discretion) was less than half what my male coworker received, even though my sales were much higher than his. I've never experienced such bias. I knew it was not  just me when I looked at the management as a whole. I observed two women in district management positions (just two levels above me). Both had more than 20 years experience with the bank while the four men I met at that same level each had half that experience. I concluded the company was better suited to men. Although, unambitious, extremely pleasant young women would always find lower paid positions in support roles.