Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2020-11-05
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Friendly workplace but disfunctional management
Pros: -Found people to generally be extremely nice and a good culture 
-Working hours are very good, an easy 9-5 if you know how to do your job and aren't pretending in order to get promoted. 
-Big company with complex technology and plenty things to keep you interested
-Supportive and open team you can talk to and get support if you ask
- Management team are good with the politics of situations.
-Working from home solution is good
-The Management team seem to care about the wider team
Cons: -Management team are usually only politicians and not as skilled as expected, this can lead to odd and confused discussions and frequent delays.
-Junior Management are mostly politicians and lack both basic experience and basic technical skills. 
-Hard to get promoted and a general air that you need to be of same personality as management team i.e. political and making out that you are crazy busy but only claiming credit for things. 
-Approach to the Audit universe is based on making an effective business audit universe but makes IT audit universe ineffective and is full of repetition as IT works differently. Seems to be a lack of understanding around IT amongst management team.
-Extremely slow environment full of red tape from the hiring processes, budgetary processes, HR, Risk Assessments, development of products and projects.
-Some departments seem to be led from the bottom up by junior resources with the management team just being given information only updates and being kept out of the loop. 
-Audit processes encourage massive repetition for no gain, methodology is defined/managed by inexperienced Auditors.
-Generally a lack of communications at all levels including with stakeholders and internally amongst the team.