Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2014-12-01
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Lots of data, but a diffiuclt environment for developing innovative analytic solutions
Pros: Very interesting, rich, and valuable data. Lots of "extra curricular" activities and opportunities to network and figure out what's going on. Many opportunities to learn about other roles and lots of internal mobility.
Cons: If you're excited about making innovative technology products and using open source tools, this environment, like many other large companies, that will prove difficult.  I was sold on the fact that there was so much data to use and could do so many innovative things with it, but it proved very difficult to move beyond ideation stages with many projects because of management changes in priority and legal/compliance conservatism. It is a difficult environment for an ambitious technologist who's not willing to put in the time and effort to win political victories to push her or his work forward- overhead that you would not have a tech company - but also not a learning opportunity you would have in a tech company either.