Sweat Shop - IT Vice President JPMorganChase Employee Review

1.0
Mar 16, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay. Also if you are a technically adept person who likes a hectic work environment.

Cons

I was warned that it was a sweat shop, and that is indeed true. This is a very large company, so ymmv depending on what area you are in, but IT is not a pleasant place to be. Culturally it was diseased to the core: there was a no understanding of process, no understanding of roles, and basically they were just trying to do way too much too quickly and so it was a constant of environment of chickens running around with their heads cut off. They really do not care about their employees. And that's their right, of course, but if you go there you might as well do so as a mercenary because that's all you are to them. I didn't know anyone who was happy there, and yet there was an odd type of timidity (and maybe loyalty in some cases) which stopped most people from leaving. I hated working there.

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Pros

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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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