Life draining corporate environment - Software Engineer J.P. Morgan Employee Review

1.0
19 May 2023
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Pros

Good pay, decent benefits, opportunity for career advancement

Cons

Worst culture I’ve experienced in the corporate world. Technology is far behind modern times and hurts growth as a developer and ability to improve system performance. Upper management uses statistics like number of commits and Agile story points to track your performance and will have your manager pull you into an office to scold you privately if your commits or story points are too low. These statistic tracking punish teamwork and promote selfish individualism instead. The culture is very stressful as a result and everyone is more worried about meeting their statistic quota than team success. The culture is life draining and destroyed a lot of my passion for software development while I was there.

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5.0
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Pros

Pay + benefits Good WLB

Cons

Learning curve can be steep

3.0
12 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

1. One of the best banks, heavy on tech and AI, that makes my life simple 2. Bonus is consistent every year 3. The company is highly social and multicultural. 4. A lot of training program to upskill and develop.

Cons

1. A lot of administrative items to take care of, a significant portion is spent on meetings, meetings are called to establish an agenda for next meetings, and so on. 2. Layoffs, all year round- sometimes significant, while in the middle of delivery. If your manager is off-site/ another city/country, you are more likely to be impacted. 3. Departments may have skewed gender or racial ratios. It is best to stay away to avoid discrimination (to be fair, this has less to do with culture and more to do with who the head of the department is).

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