Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2012-12-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Politics & Inefficient management will drive you away
Pros: Some very good people to work with who help you out 
Lot of options to move around the firm, but it comes with a big IF which i will explain in detail in the Cons
Cons: Politics (at the ground level as well.)
Politically biased salary & comp structure - Basically if your (incompetent) manager likes you, you may earn much more than your superior
Inefficient managers - I admire working with senior folks, but honestly some folks here started heir careers 30 years ago & their style of work never changed. 
Executives gossiping about you behind your back - YES YOU HEARD IT RIGHT. They encourage you to talk to them, keep it transparent. But then they meet other co-workers for after work dinners/drinks & let it all out. HORRIBLE.

I was on the technology side, started well, very well. My performance was always top-notch in the group. I gave in hours and hours of my life, late nights every night, weekends you name it I was always there to perform.

But then the management drove me away. Expectations for you to perform day & night were set, but at the end of the day politics & a very biased salary & hiring structure forced me to look out.

I can't comment on work-life balance at all because one does not exist here at all. Forget about me saying its bad, because there is no balance here at all. Partly enforced by managers & part by employees who just sit and browse internet in the office to gain brownie points for showing their face. But then you can't blame them because compensation is linked to you presence in the office.

Well you may think that in such a big company you can look out for internal positions after a while - true & HR is very supportive of this. But some managers will go out of the way to block your internal move. Yes that happens here, it happened to my co-workers & they left the firm as well.