Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2019-04-04
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Great people; difficult to execute due to size
Pros: Everyone cares deeply about delivering the best customer/client experience; it’s not lip service and the customer mindset is stronger here than any other bank. Some of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with and for. You will also find amazing leaders here; extremely authentic and down to earth - just good people. Jamie Dimon has a deep bench and it goes a few layers down. 

The Firm cares about its employees and you can move around every few years if you do a great job in the role. High performers can be very mobile.
Cons: Size of the bank can be a problem, particularly on the broader Retail side. You’ll find multiple people doing the same thing at times; there are thick pockets of bureaucracy too, but there is a huge effort to squash this. And the bureaucracy comes in many forms: too many meetings, policies that can slow you down, or internal systems that can slow you down. 

Also, given size of the bank, not everyone is an A player. You can bury a lot of under-performers beneath 250k employees (in perpetuity).  CIB and Asset Management among the sharpest though. 

Comp relative to the market is way off; but you’re working for the best bank out there.