Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2016-09-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Not a place for Quants over 25
Pros: Pay is better than industry.
Cons: Company efficiency is horrible. Your immediate manager will compete with their counterpart to see how late they can make their underlings stay. Within 2 weeks of starting, my outlook calendar had 6-7PM meetings daily out to the next 4 months. The meetings were pointless and only served to send to the organizer's superior that they were "on top of things."

The place is a mess and turnover was high. The result was everyone was new/bad at their jobs and combined with the disorganization, it made efficiency really low. They have 5 people doing a job that would be handled by one person in many banks. Upper management in New York often calls in to meetings and generally act like overgrown children to boss around underlings on pointless things.