Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2014-04-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

You are a very small cog in a very large machine.
Pros: Comp, annual leave, and the overall benefits are very good.
Cons: 1) I work in AML Compliance, and you are treated like a 3rd class citizen. It becomes very clear (very early) that JPMorgan only has compliance employees because the government requires it. You will not be part of the JPMC family.

2) Everything is super bureaucratic.

3) Training is weak and mostly online. Again, if you work in back office (aka a cost) it is very hard to get funding to take relevant external training. 

4) In AML compliance they only care about performance metrics. It is not about doing quality investigations into potential violation of the BSA and/or the Patriot Act. It is all about doing the bare minimum as quickly possible. To make things worse JPMC recently started blocking the vast majority of websites which it makes impossible to conduct web research which is the backbone of the AML compliance process.