J.P. Morgan reviews

flood of complaints of managers bullying multiple individuals with no solutions offered, leadership with little to no knowledge of BAU, lots of nepotism with hires and promotions, rampant favouritism, massively underpaid, borderline discriminatory behaviour tolerated, tense environment, five days a week in the office, old and disappointing office building, have to pay for own nights out/socials, lack of growth opportunities, unpaid overtime, refuse to pay internal hires that get promoted at the inflated rate they pay external hires, no training, lack of funding for certificates, ageism, declining standards for hiring in at senior levels - the list could go on, unfortunately.

In order to survive in Marketing and in J.P. Morgan Payments in general, you have to be able to sell yourself and talk very highly of yourself. You have to be able to "build your brand" even if you do not have one. It's all about networking, The saying "it's not what you know, but who you know" fits very well into JPM's culture. There is an unwritten and silenced rule to work overtime and over weekends. There is a silent game of "who can win" against each teammate in order to gain the most contacts and favours from stakeholders. Managers only speak about themselves and their achievements, which is next to none, but they find a way to bend the truth. My team leads did not know how to nurture, lead or train others. They built a team from scratch without a plan, strategy or vision, and purely hired candidates with different levels of experience and backgrounds - it seems every lead at JPM likes to Kingdom build! They hired a person who was a family member, with no corporate and marketing experience and positioned this person to be lead - so if that is not nepotism at its finest, I don't know what is. I was told "You have to play the game in order to get a promotion" and that they "do not care about [my] experience" and with that, I left.