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Fantastic Boring Life

Software Associate II
Former Employee
Worked at JPMorgan Chase for 2 years
June 8, 2024
New York, New York
4.0
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Pros

Great pay and an easy environment. Just do your job, and you'll be taken care of through the banks. Very reliable, good times.

Decent community, and it is large if you take the opportunity to network throughout. Traveling and earning responsibility to move between offices is a gift you shouldn't take lightly.

Cons

It seems quite easy to stagnate into an easy life. As long as you serve them, you will succeed as a lifer. That could be what you want, and if it is, you can build a career in the annals of the Great institution. It could also leave you purposeless when your daily responsibility is so enclosed in the whole that is JPMC. Not for everyone, but not a universal con.

Advice to Management

Offer better incentive structures for employees to organize their efforts towards value and care for what is truly important. Ensure pay scales are sufficient for both the lifer to achieve upper middle class status into retirement to build families and communities, and for the ambitious to feel it is worth it to succeed.

For a bank, even with high income, the static income with potential for a yearly bump of a moderate single digit percentage is insufficient after the national post-2020 fiscal actions, when that is all there is.

You are a bank; just peg my income to inflation and never give me a pay raise unless my merit warrants it. I would be happy and willing to work hard and achieve more. It would be great.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
4.0

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