Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2015-04-09
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Vice President
Pros: None - unless you are out of work and unemployment benefits are running out. Then take the job for the paycheck and find a way out ASAP.
Cons: Classic bait and switch, I was hired for a front office position (leaving another firm/front office position) and by the time I started the role offered to me was "no longer there" and I was dumped into a middle office position (with a salary that was above pay grade). From there once that group had the opportunity I was pushed onto yet another middle office team (where I was above the title team manager and had to report to someone else until this person was promoted). I the short time I was at JPMorgan (just over 3 years) I had 8 different managers.
Training is non existent, you are given links to soft copies of manuals that describe the roles and responsibilities (these "manuals" are out of date and often have numerous updates located in places other then the manual itself with no guidance on where the links to the information is located (read that to be hidden - the company website is horrible to navigate).
When you have questions/issues (human resources/technology) there is no number to call (you don't have an assigned HR person) and everything is submitted via electronic "tickets" that often can take several days to get a response (in one case my computer crashed and it took 2 1/2 days before there was a response from the technology team - I just sat there and read a book or played games on my phone (Some of the tickets I raised were never completed after 3 years. Teams would pass the problem around until no one else was left to handle it and they would mark it resolved even though nothing was fixed). The technology is junk,  most so over engineered that it doesn't work with other systems and most of the time is developed with no input from the team that uses it or any consideration to how it is going to work (or in most cases not work) with the existing processes that are in place. All of the available web browsers were so out of date that most did not support the functions required to complete your work.
The last group I worked in had no synergy between the teams, in fact management had set up the matrix reports for individual performance that adversarial relationship dominated the work place and left everyone in terrible state of mind (the group I was in got so fed up with management inability to fix the problems over 65% left for external or internal positions in 6 months and no one was replaced - adding that much more stress to everyones lives).
Business units are so walled off from one another that policies/procedures are put in place that do not work with any other groups and then it is a mad scramble to find workarounds that correct the problems. Also policies and procedures are changed more often then underwear.
To sum it up a terrible place to work, so bad that I would only recommend it to someone that I hated and never to someone I liked.