Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2013-06-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Really Big Bank!
Pros: Top of almost every league table
Cutting edge finanical products
Wide range of business lines
Good technology mix
Some effort to create best practice and architecture across all organizations.
Cons: Corporate environment tends to encourage managers to build little empires and the politics of these are problematic.  Projects that have no point survive because the person in charge has some pull with higher-ups, while projects that have a clear business value die for the opposite reason.  There is an upper limit to how high an individual technical contributor can rise.