Avoid working for Chase. No work-life balance. - Assistant Vice President JPMorganChase Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

big company, stable, known brand

Cons

Horrible bureaucracy makes this place a living hell, extremely intense workload, no work-life balance. Expect to work long hours and weekends. Don't expect any significant salary increases at the end of year. It's a never ending race to complete more projects, with less people, in shorter time, even at the cost of project quality and high people turnover.

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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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