Tools available to you work against you - Associate Software Engineer J.P. Morgan Employee Review

3.0
7 Jul 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Semi competitive benefits. Room for growth. Large teams, so lots of expertise if you can find it.

Cons

The development environments available to do your job are by far the worst I have ever used in my life. You are denied basic permissions such as deleting desktop icons and everything you need to access is on internal resources that fail to load the first few times. They started me off on a Windows 7 VM and eventually gave me a Windows 10 VM but in order to use the Windows 10 VM you had to open it through the Windows 7 VM... can't make this stuff up. The Win10 environment ended up being useless because, despite the sub company I work for being part of JPM Chase, it still has a separate domain that the new environment didn't have access to. So every dev on my team, set up this new environment just to find out it was not usable and go back to our derelict Win7 setups. They force internal tooling on you for installing needed applications such as Postman and offer no support when things don't work. My helpdesk tickets are often auto-closed and tagged with comments completely irrelevant to the issue forcing me to re-open then. When a ticket it finally picked up by a person, weeks later, they usually also immediately close it and tell you that can't do anything about it. All in all, it's astounding that anyone gets any work done in this environment and, truthfully, quite a number of the developers I work with don't. They are forever just reporting blockers at the daily scrum. So they through even more developers at the project who are, in turn, constantly working against the very tools we are handed to do the job.

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5.0
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Pros

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills Scalable backend and distributed systems expertise Fast learner and adaptable to new technologies Ownership mindset and accountability Team collaboration and communication Focus on performance, reliability, and quality delivery

Cons

I can be overly detail-oriented at times, but I’ve learned to balance quality with delivery timelines and business priorities.

3.0
12 May 2026
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Pros

1. One of the best banks, heavy on tech and AI, that makes my life simple 2. Bonus is consistent every year 3. The company is highly social and multicultural. 4. A lot of training program to upskill and develop.

Cons

1. A lot of administrative items to take care of, a significant portion is spent on meetings, meetings are called to establish an agenda for next meetings, and so on. 2. Layoffs, all year round- sometimes significant, while in the middle of delivery. If your manager is off-site/ another city/country, you are more likely to be impacted. 3. Departments may have skewed gender or racial ratios. It is best to stay away to avoid discrimination (to be fair, this has less to do with culture and more to do with who the head of the department is).

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