Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2016-01-21
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Great Opportunity with frustrations
Pros: Large company with unlimited options across the global banking industry (consumer, mortgage, investment banking, etc) and technology domain (infrastructure, middleware, mobile, etc) if you're willing to go through a few relocations.

Easy access to very intelligent and highly motivated people; healthy options for those with talent and motivation.

You will learn to operate systems at scale that are unrivaled many other places.
Cons: Being a large bank in today's world technology moves slowly unless you happen to be in an "innovation center" and usually trails the leading IT trends and services by 3-5 years.  

Lots of bureaucracy and red tape.  Way to much paperwork in most cases.

Lots of reorganization and a major site strategy underway, make sure you find yourself in a strategic location.  If you're good at our job there are enough mobility options inside of the "hubs"

The old adage "a penny-wise but pound foolish" occurs far too often in decision making from upper management.