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Good Mentors, Obsolete Tech

SQL Developer
Former Employee
Worked at JPMorgan Chase for less than 1 year
September 18, 2016
Tampa, Florida
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

A very generous mentorship culture. Variety of training. There are many interesting people who work for JPMC, and the institution encourages internal networking. Good paid time off compensation.

Cons

JPMC uses a variety of very obsolete technologies, with massive layoffs for the past 2 years. Virtual meetings take up to 50% of time daily. Process overhead is tremendous, with a lot of paperwork and hollow meetings. There are too many town halls and cynical speeches about good and great.

Advice to Management

The environment is very political; engineering minds are not very appreciated. People are promoted based on loyalty.

I would encourage reducing the number of virtual communications and embracing new technologies.

Less town halls, less speaking about how great things are.

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