Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2008-08-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Very political company; you have to seek out your own success
Pros: As a huge company, there is opportunity for moving around if you search it out yourself.  The benefits, while not as good as in earlier years, are still fairly good: four weeks of vacation if you're an officer plus two personal days plus standard bank holidays.  The health insurance is expensive, but good.
Cons: The culture is very much about cost cutting, to the detriment of investing intelligently in the business to foster growth.  Some of the senior managers are very political and while excellent at managing up, they are poor managers to those who report to them.  It's amazing how some of these managers continue to survive in their positions.