Glad to have been there, but glad I'm gone - Vice President - Database Administration JPMorganChase Employee Review

3.0
24 May 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Exceptionally good benefits programs and liberal vacation allowance. Compensation is on a par with, or perhaps slightly better, than peer companies. Opportunities for career and personal development are widely available, but need to be aggressively sought out -- management is lax about providing these opportunities to staff.

Cons

Very high stress levels, minimal acknowledgment for a job well done. Recognition is highly inconsistent across departments. Some departments praise and reward staff for minimally doing a competent job; in other departments, staff can consistently produce exceptional results and barely receive an acknowledgment that they contributed anything at all. Training budgets are miserly. Reorganizations occur with dismaying frequency; any given structure is hardly in place and starting to function before the apple cart is upturned. There is an appalling lack of personal accountability for quality across many areas, especially in technical and infrastructure support areas. Staffing in technical support areas is barely adequate in many cases, leading to excessive work hours and high stress levels.

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Pros

They treat people well overall. It's all about connecting to others to get anything done, so if you're great with networking and maintaining connections it's a good place to work. Honestly the kindest layoff I've ever experienced, including genuine internal support to find another job. Still doing meaningful DOI work, including some of the best friendly benefits out there.

Cons

If you don't have a highly specialized cyber security skill set or work at a main campus in Texas, Ohio, Delaware, New York or New Jersey don't expect to ever move up the ladder. Staying focused on goals OR successfully communicating strategy pivots seems to be beyond most MDs in Global Technology. They seem to be having a re-org problem at the moment. I had 5 managers in the last 365 days I was there, hardly time to get any work done and then challenged at the end to show impact or delivery, all you can do is shrug and say 'tell me how, when you moved me every 2 months?"

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