J.P. Morgan reviews

No work life balance , too much of work load and not paid as per industry standard. shld forget about family and other side of life.No work from home option. Strictly no ..... No Job security - Teams are formed on short team -max 2 yrs , on completion of project , teams will be dismantled . jobs for members in a project is a big question mark next. members will be sent out with one month pay to search jobs outside. every year jpmc recruits 90k people on board , being 200 yrs old company emp count across globe is 2 lac till now. so calculating resource cut every year with common sense is easy. unwanted management layers , unwanted managers : Multiple layers of management for even silly things, a person - employee should satisfy offshore and functional managers. also top level management for which they have many people wasting company money and resources. for a small team there are ED , multiple VPs . Instead they can take out EDs who consumes 4 times of tech architects or VPs. Give authority to immediate managers to evuluate emp . Dual reporting makes more complicated in performance management. An employee should prove their work to all management teams - functional and offshore India . just to show case industry standard , jpmc follow agile in GTI , which never brought any change in last 2 yrs.management team enjoys their own sweet time in planning and to survive in the name of strategy meetings. No technology upgrade : management takes very long time in deciding technology changes. opportunities are given only to onshore team in US and UK. India team is only a back office data entry team , to dump unwanted non tech jobs.the front end core teams who manages tech decision and implementation are onshore team. Offshore managers and ED s are slaves to accept all instructions from onshore and use Indians as a scape goat for their survival. ED in technology group knows on how to survive in this bank by using employees career life(firing them) in india as a scape goat. By this technique they save their own jobs every year. Instead of doing this betrayal work for foreign people they can do some other illegal business alone or with their family members to survive and earn money.

Poor technical expertise on all levels. A lot of incompetent people even among team leaders. And even you are qualified enough you can be under the leader who don't know some basic computer science conception. I know the people who lead the web app project without relation database knowledge. I mean at all. Can you imagine the code quality? Moreover in the same time the same person don't understand the principles the object oriented programming. I mean at all even such basic things like inheritance and interfaces. I have never seen such unqualified people. Politics and meetings, meetings , meetings. A lot of bureaucracy, you need to get approvals for everything. Chaotic management, very often project manager in US and available only by conference calls. No architecture design as class, usually the only criteria "it should work, no matter how" No algorithmic challenges, just stupid monkey coding like read from db / write to db and display something on web page. And because of this no learning and development for you. Nobody care about how good are you as software engineer, it is much better to have strong communications skills. Looks like they don't need engineers. In the bank they need people who can demonstrate that they do something. So typical bank managers psychology. Performance review are more important that real work. Forced visualization as mentioned on of the previous reviewers, yes. If you are linux /unix developer, you have to live on virtual machine. Terrible overcrowded office. Often desks installed literally in the passages. Once I have seen that 5 developers sitting on the 4 desks. Desks compression! A lot of people -> difficult to find vacant toilet. Difficult to find table in canteen during the lunch time. Really I can't recommend this place for experienced engineers. If you want to concentrate on technical tasks this place is not for you. May be it depends the team. But my impression is like this.