Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2015-10-27
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Not a bad place for banking, but that's a low bar
Pros: - Very well compensated nominally
- Possibility to develop a long career path with different divisions in the bank
- Complete HR systems and services, efficiencies of a large corporate

If you wanted to work in financial services, J.P. Morgan has a lot to offer. It certainly does not have the most aggressive culture within banking. Pay is in line with industry practices and might be slightly higher. For a lot of roles, because of the J.P. Morgan name you can access a lot of very good clients.
Cons: - Bureaucratic, opaque structure
- The usual bad things about banking
- The usual bad things about big corporates

To earn the very good salary, you sacrifice a lot of other things in life. Just like every other market transaction, equal is exchanged for equal. Fear of the unknown in a lower income lifestyle and greed for excessive financial security and freedom are the two reasons why people stay. If you want to learn and grow as much as you can, you could find yourself stuck a career bus that someone else is driving.