JPMorgan Chase

Interesting problems to work on.

Developer experience at this company is catastrophically bad. Internal tools are extremely slow and unreliable. Developer processes are extremely inefficient, with little concern shown to improving this. Devs on my team perform a lot of manual toil that could be automated if management showed any ability to think further than two weeks in advance.

All of this is of course a result of the highly conservative corporate culture. Communication is very difficult, as everyone is looking to avoid blame and close out their tickets as fast as possible. This is only getting worse with the push to use LLMs. I had several interactions with my Technical Lead where he showed me flat-out broken code and demonstrated a complete misunderstanding of a tool he wanted to use because he had asked the LLM instead of reading the docs.

Ditch the LLMs, focus on process efficiency, foster a culture of blamelessness.