Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2017-01-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Compliance Department Review
Pros: Great company brand; looks good on your resume and easier to get job interviews when it is time to move on. People here are in general very nice and cooperative. Work/life balance is achievable depending on the team. I have seen people living a 9/5 life in JPMorgan.
Cons: Very political environment especially in back office; unfair performance rating; lack of transparency; terrible compensation. Constantly changing organizational structure and leadership. (I have had 4 direct managers in past two years.) It depends on the team but some managers are just mean people and all they ever care about is to take the credit and promote themselves in front of senior management. I have seen people moving around internally but it is VERY DIFFICULT to get a promotion or a raise through internal transfer. HR is not as helpful as they should be. 1) First of all they are hard to be approached, you just cannot find the right people to talk to. The internal hotline "accessHR" is a joke because you will never get through; 2) I have seen people report their manager to HR but they did NOT do ANYTHING to protect the employees.