Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2015-03-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Industry's gold-standard of service and sophisticated advice, tarnished by conflict of interest & employee intimidation.
Pros: Culture of excellence and expertise second to none.  Brilliant CEO whose work ethic, style, and confidence shines through to the front office, providing the ultimate model for those managers willing and capable of passing it on.
Cons: Massive corporate arrogance.  Management by deception, vagueness, and manipulation by many front-line managers and practice leaders (many are wonderful too).  Rampant conflicts of interest.  Private clients and client advisors are used by senior mgmt as tools and liquidity sources for I.B./CorpBank/CommBank deals.  Lots of rhetoric with weak investment results.  Independent thinking is squashed and independent thinkers are defamed.