Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2014-03-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Fast paced environment but very dense hierarchical structure
Pros: Work moves fast and efficiently as one would expect at JPMC. Cross-functionality is well organized and most things run like a well oiled machine.
Cons: Despite the efficiency of the processes, I found a surprising lack of talent, particularly in the midwestern employees vs the NYC folks. Also there is a big cultural gap between the midwestern and the NYC folks - mostly in terms of depth of understanding of issues that are considered common knowledge in NYC but of which midwesterners seem to be totally ignorant. This leads to clannishness where the Midwestern folks protect their own and get into unprofessional favoritism.
Finally there is a total lack of visibility into upper rungs of management, even via quarterly conference calls or group notices. This makes it very difficult to know the general direction the group is moving towards.