Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2020-09-26
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

A dumping ground for others’ problems
Pros: Good peers
Pays well
Has bonus incentives
Cons: Like my title states, this role is nothing more than a dumping ground for problems you had nothing to do with in the first few place. Your front office partners are almost always self-titled, unhelpful, and won’t hesitate to throw you under the bus. They will blame you for anything that goes wrong, if that’s their prerogative. Management is mostly burned out men in their mid-40s so there’s essentially zero diversity. When something bad does happen, the motto is usually “before we do anything to fix this, first we gotta figure out who’s guilty.” It’s practically unwritten policy. 

My advice? Don’t chase the money. This job could potentially ruin your enthusiasm for finance altogether. After five years of service I was laid off without an explanation. Don’t ever think for a minute that that business cares about anything but the bottom line. 

I wish none of this was true because it’s a sad microcosm for the finance industry as a whole. But unfortunately it’s all true. I don’t want anyone to make my mistake. Go with a company that has a history of treating their employees well.