Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2011-08-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Frustrating
Pros: Pay is pretty good. Benefits are right up there, with quite a few options for health care, dental, vision, and flexible spending accounts. Time off is exceptional -- 20 days vacation, 5 sick days, 2 personal days, and all holidays.
Cons: JP Morgan is driven by money, so a lot of decisions are made regarding only the bottom line.  This leads to some decisions, especially regarding the IT staff, that are exceptionally poor.  Engineers and project managers are overworked and treated like red-headed stepchildren.  Management has an exceptionally poor performance review system; substituting platitudes for goals and beating down people for failing  to meet them.  This probably saves money on annual bonuses and raises, since it gives management an excuse not to award any.  Reasonable pay and good benefits aside, there is a lot of politics and a distinct lack of leadership in the management, which ruins what would otherwise be a decent place to work.  Many very talented people bail at the first opportunity.