Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2017-11-02
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great from the outside, terrible from the inside
Pros: Pays slightly more than the market rate.

Jamie Dimon and his executives are actually very smart people. The high-level MDs are also smart individuals. The low-level, the mid-level MDs and most EDs are... wow, I'm being very polite when saying that they're not the smartest.
Cons: The minuscule difference in pay is not worth you'll experience there. No employer cares about how many blue-chip company names you have on your resume -- today's employers care about what you've done, whether you were at JP or a small startup.  

Most of the people at JP are a bunch on misfits -- people who have been there for decades pushing the same button every day; all they want is a paycheck. At almost every town-hall meeting, they keep saying how they're investing in technology, yet, they keep using mainframe systems from the 1980s (I am not kidding -- their backend systems are literally mainframe from the 80s). 

If you're an ambitious, new-ideas and innovation driven person, this is not the place for you. This company is so big and so many people want a slice of the pie, that nothing ever gets done. Too many MDs have built their small empires and they want to keep it that way.

Promotions and big bonuses only go to those that keep agreeing and never challenge their managers. If you have an idea to improve the business, keep it to yourself -- you only follow what your manager tells you to do. 

If you're 55 years old and you're looking for a place to retire, or all you care about is your 8-6 job and a steady paycheck, then you'e in luck, you've found your perfect company. 

I know all this because I was an Executive Director -- I ran an entire department, but resigned because I couldn't waste my life away pushing the same button for the next 30 years.