Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2009-05-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

They make you pay for your salary.
Pros: Good salary and benefits package, flexible holidays.  Good office banter and community among the employees.  Social & activity groups provide a lot of opportunities to network.
Cons: It's a bank not a software company.  The work delivered by technologists is not valued, seen simply as a cost centre to be minimised.  Focus on short-term solutions with no regrad for long-term impact. buzz word is low-hanging fruit, with no regard for how you eventually get the stuff at the top of the tree.  If you can't easily put a figure on it, then it's not a real cost.  Downsides that can't be easily moneterised are ignored.