Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2017-10-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Good people / hard to get things done
Pros: The people I worked with were all great.  The project was challenging and the environment was good. Their Expert Engineer Program is excellent.
Cons: Getting simple things done can involve a lot of effort. The company has centralized everything, so you end up dealing a lot with faceless teams spread all over the world who have no idea about what you are trying to do (and don't really care either).   One example, I tried to get a piece of software that was essential to my job (I was setting up a brand new team so nobody previously had need for this type of software). The request got bogged down initially in the request system (rejected with no explanation multiple times), then in getting approvals (dozens of them required, most people in the list having no idea why they are on there),  then in having legal review the license,  then in payment,  then after all that actually getting the software delivered took forever. All of these processes are separate, and you are expected to just figure everything out yourself. The teams don't coordinate and bounce you back and forth, and the internal apps to mange this are all comically bad. It took 8 months to get what I needed.  Anything that is non-standard is like this