Narcissistic team - Strategic Marketing Associate J.P. Morgan Employee Review

1.0
1 Jun 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great restaurants in the area

Cons

In order to survive in Marketing and in J.P. Morgan Payments in general, you have to be able to sell yourself and talk very highly of yourself. You have to be able to "build your brand" even if you do not have one. It's all about networking, The saying "it's not what you know, but who you know" fits very well into JPM's culture. There is an unwritten and silenced rule to work overtime and over weekends. There is a silent game of "who can win" against each teammate in order to gain the most contacts and favours from stakeholders. Managers only speak about themselves and their achievements, which is next to none, but they find a way to bend the truth. My team leads did not know how to nurture, lead or train others. They built a team from scratch without a plan, strategy or vision, and purely hired candidates with different levels of experience and backgrounds - it seems every lead at JPM likes to Kingdom build! They hired a person who was a family member, with no corporate and marketing experience and positioned this person to be lead - so if that is not nepotism at its finest, I don't know what is. I was told "You have to play the game in order to get a promotion" and that they "do not care about [my] experience" and with that, I left.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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