Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2019-09-27
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Under resourced, offshoring, and micromanaging - Welcome to Newark Controllers (NCC)
Pros: Benefits associated with a large bank
Onsite Starbucks 
Tasty cafeteria food
Cons: Worst experience I've had out of 3 of the largest financial services firms. Management is incompetent and micromanages, if you think of that guy who who is all about face time and says yes to whatever his boss asks of him only to burden the team, this will be who your manager is. They are where they are because they were too stupid to see the writing on the wall and go elsewhere. These are not people who you want to have any influence on your career or your day to day work. 

Environment is chaos. Everything is urgent, everything was needed yesterday, even though it was asked for today. Training is extremely poor due to high turnover (at least on my team.) You'll be handed an SOP that is outdated or incomplete, yet your manager will swear by it and then berate you when you can't use it.  Your apology for his mistake is that you have to update it ASAP. If you are lucky, you might not be berated by the colleague who was supposed to train you but did a terrible job because he/she is also working on another team. Btw, the open roles on your team will be back 
filled in Poland.

So many roles and regions were consolidated into your role that you will need access to 20+ systems to do your job on a daily basis. And btw, you'll have to submit your own access requests because your team either doesn't have time or doesn't remember how to do it because there are so many. You'll then have to hound the IT teams about granting it because they are incredibly under resourced. 

Colleagues are grumpy, overworked, overwhelmed, several people on my team taking days off due to stress. Huge number of people heading to the health center on a daily basis due to emotional breakdowns because they can no longer take the abuse, intense micromanaging, and overall negative work environment. 

It's not worth your stress or time. Focus on other companies.