Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2008-08-15
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Chase a great place to work for the family man/woman.
Pros: Depending on what level you enter the company, you can start off with four weeks of vacation and all bank holidays.  A Flex work schedule that really helps with family life.  The benefit cost to the employee are high like everywhere else, but Chase offers a lot of extras that you might not find else where.  One I enjoyed was paternity leave for the father of a new born.  Allowed me to spend more time with my family when we really needed it.  Chase is a very large company where you can find other opportunities if you really want to.
Cons: It's a very large company, so if you don't stick up for yourself, you can get lost in the mix.  A few years ago I was a team lead and was working my butt off to get noticed.  I had awesome reviews and was told I could really be a player with this company.  I submitted a request to go back to grad school to get my MBA, thinking it would be an excellent win-win situation for the company and me.  It was rejected because I was not at an officer level at that time.  I found this to be discouraging.  Someone who is working long hours and getting plenty of praise from management gets denied a chance to improve himself for the better of both parties.