Software Developer - Software Developer JPMorganChase Employee Review

1.0
Jul 22, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are nice. Four weeks vacation, 401k matching, and a pension plan.

Cons

Professional dress code required. Teams are not co-located so all meetings are virtual. Year-over-year raises are non-existent. Bonuses are based on how well you know people, not performance. Terrible rule preventing renegotiation of salary and position when moving internally, so the only way to increase your salary is to leave the company. Employee moral is horrible because the work environment sucks. Even though you are a developer you will be expected to work support, so expect nights and weekend work. If you work in Card you will be required to use a virtual desktop which can barely run two programs at the same time. If you work in the investment bank you will at least get a used laptop. Open Source concepts are implemented horribly, so expect to used software a year behind what is current if at all. 10% of your time will be spent actually coding. The rest will be consumed submitting requests and chasing approvals. At company meetings they stress how much money they are saving be reducing their technology budget as if that is a positive thing. The truth is corners are cut by forcing employees to used subpar technology (used laptops, virtual desktops, small monitors, etc.).

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5.0
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Pros

Collaboration and care for customer is real.

Cons

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4.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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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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