Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2010-08-01
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Success requires too much luck
Pros: This company is a marketing machine.  They offer a great brand name and their system of collaboration is nothing short of outstanding.  The benefits are great.  If one is fortunate enough to be placed in the right situation, career success is virtually assured.
Cons: If one is placed in an unfavorable situation, there is very little that even the brightest & most ambitious person can do to overcome and succeed.  Disrespect from management to their direct reports seemed to be a corporate cultural problem.  Politics is also a big problem here.  Shocking how common it was to see managers undermine their own long-term success in favor of short-term pettiness and desire to get full credit for the job being done.  There seemed to be virtually no understanding of the cause-effect relationship with departments/people which were doing well and those which were not.