JPMorgan Chase

They provide good benefits:

• 401K match
• Employee stock purchase program
• Solid health insurance

Internal mobility opportunities abound.

You’ll get a nice bump in salary and a decent bonus your first year, but don’t expect your monetary comp to reflect the effort you put into your role going forward.

Feels like the firm would rather spend tens of thousands on balloon displays to celebrate their employees than pay their employees a wage that makes them actually feel appreciated.

Be careful with internal mobility – it hurts your chances to be promoted.

The firm supports the Heritage Foundation, spitting in the eye of their supposed efforts to support green energy and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The hypocrisy is nauseating.

If you ask your team(s) for pain points, don’t respond with a canned response.

And don’t be dismissive. My favorite is, “Well, that’s just how it is here, and there is nothing we can do to change it.” Well, not with that attitude!

If you are a manager that fights for your team, I applaud you. I have met a couple who actually do. If you are the canned-response manager, do better.

For MD and above: If you think you aren’t disconnected, then you are even more disconnected than the boots on the ground already feel you to be.

It’s unlikely you feel the squeeze of rising costs for groceries, clothes, and school supplies on your MD+ salaries, but the rest of us do. Telling us there wasn’t a budget for raises or bonuses, but then creating 11 more teams in the same space where teams already fight for actual development work, is just insulting.

Stop treating upper management like celebrities. The only thing special about Jamie is his outrageous $35 million bonus. No one cares about his bus tour, especially when he plays politics instead of publicly voicing dissent against authoritarian views that directly oppose tenets that the firm says it supports.

You can’t support DEI initiatives while putting money in the pockets of the Project 2025 authors at the Heritage Foundation. I guess you can, but not in a meaningful way, or in a way that anyone paying attention will take seriously.