Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2020-02-16
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Nice place but....not really
Pros: - New Office, Good pay but is not the best in town. Central location.  
- Some smart Engineers around, so you can learn a lot from them. 
- Tech stack is not that bad considering you will be working for a bank. Nowadays, everything is moving towards cloud, microservices architecture type of thing so they try to stay with the trend. 
- Their current CI/CD process is in need of a lot of improvement but it always depends on the product you're working on. I've seen worse in some other places I worked before. 
- They sell the place as an Innovation Tech Hub but is far from that. Things are moving slow and a lot more that can be done. However, they do some great things as well, like tech talks etc.
Cons: - Process driven. To introduce a new library or tech stack is quite hard but not impossible. Be ready to hit a wall when it comes to that. Remember, it is a bank and is pretty much like that in all banks. It all comes down to security, procedures, approval on top of approvals. 
- If you get an offer, ensure that you will check with the Hiring Manger that whatever is being promised in terms of benefits, like working from home, flexibility etc is applicable in the team you will end up working in. 
- Never trust the recruiter. Everything they promise to you can be overruled by the management in the US office as most of the Managers in Dublin have their direct in the US. So if the US will say "jump", he will "jump" and as a result you will have to jump as well.
- Remember that this is not applicable for all Managers. Some are working for JP for a long time and they know how to handle certain things. Therefore, they have really "crucial people management skills", with lots of experience and know how to "tackle" sensitive stuff so their teams are grand but some are a "no go zone".  Check the facts before going to sign up the contract.