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Good salary and benefits, but layers of bureaucracy are stifling

Applications Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at JPMorgan Chase for 4 years
August 5, 2014
Chicago, Illinois
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Good salary and benefits.

Management seems open and fair and strictly adheres to firm-wide policies.

In this global mega-corporation, you can easily move to other jobs within the firm.

Cons

Super-paranoid and extremely risk-averse. If you are doing software development, you will be hindered by the fact that all the hardware is strictly locked down and access tightly controlled.

Getting almost anything done, no matter how trivial, requires a formal electronic request that must be approved by several layers of management.

There is a Risk organization that constantly comes up with new restrictions they can put into place that end up making your job more difficult. (e.g., recycling bins were removed from everywhere because of the risk that someone might throw confidential documents into the recycling rather than the shredder, forcing everyone to dispose of all recycling in the shredder).

Work/life balance doesn't appear to be one of the firm's principles. You are expected to make yourself available at all times.

Advice to Management

Lighten up a bit with some of the security paranoia. Break down some of the layers of management.

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