Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2018-08-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Your experience at JP Morgan depends on your line of business, department, location and manager
Pros: Some hardworking employees
Amenities in the larger offices (i.e. London - Canary Wharf,  New York City - 270 Park Ave etc.)
Learning and Development Courses
Everyone respects the name JP Morgan
Cons: The employee  experience is not consistent across departments or locations. The US has a better culture and more opportunities for growth than the UK for example. 
Lots of politics and you have to be 'in' with certain people to get exposure or progress
HR and the business only care about fee earning employees
You are your title/level - you are respected or not respected simply off the back of that
Bullying culture
Too much time is spent in back to back meetings with little to no agenda or purpose
Men have a far better time than women 
Women managers are horrendous to female junior team members
Lots of back biting and lack of professionalism especially in HR
You are invisible no matter how talented you are if no one cares about your area of work
Lack of consistency in ensuring a positive culture exists across the organisation, within departments and within teams
Managers have weird access/visibility to employee reviews of them and can question you directly
The performance review process (now titled performance 'development') is a farce, inconsistent and unfair. Managers hate having to do mid-year check-ins and end of year reviews. They act like it is a chore and it is not priority for them. Its hard to know how well you are doing as managers change the goal posts and behave like sycophant to senior management
God like idolization of the CEO - enough said
Poor work life balance
Sub-par employee benefits
No respect for employee confidentiality