JPMorgan Chase

Great work-life balance, as there is almost no pressure to work outside of regular hours, outside of handling production issues. Most of the time, the work is pretty low stress.

The expectations and responsibilities go up as you progress in your career and team, but the balance for higher-level engineers is still pretty good. Most teams are also very flexible and open to internal moves within the company.

Currently in a hybrid work model with the expectation of being in the office 60% of the time. This is strictly enforced. However, they are currently pushing for management to be in the office 100% of the time, and it seems like this will eventually trickle down to the rest of the company.

This can be frustrating when you go into the office just to sit on Zoom meetings most of the day anyway. With it being a large company, there is a lot of annoying and unnecessary bureaucracy that can make it difficult to get things done quickly, and lots of pointless meetings that can take a lot of time out of actually getting your work done.

The pay is a bit on the low side compared to similar roles in the industry.