JPMorgan Chase Reviews in Columbus, OH Area

Pros

Opportunities for growing and advancement within the firm

Cons

Perhaps finding a more effective way to build a stronger rapport between employees and manager. At times, crucial information is often delayed.

Advice to Senior Management

Perhaps finding a more effective way to build a stronger rapport between employees and manager. At times, crucial information is often delayed.

Pros

Brand, people, training. Employees are provided with many tools and resources. Able to have work/life balance.

Cons

Very sales driven compared to other banks. Not much room for growth in smaller markets. Too many bankers in branch.

Pros

-Great IT training provided
-Mostly everyone's door is open for a learning environment
-Great end of review feedback processes
-Full support in job rotation
-Great HR

Cons

-Political relationships become intense as more vertical movement

Advice to Senior Management

Don't show the horizontal relationship stress to those you manage... They may be next to you one day.

Pros

Large company. Lots of jobs inside. Comfortable work place. Nice Manager. Work from home etc

Cons

Not all teams in the company are well formed. If you are placed in the right team, then you are lucky.

Advice to Senior Management

Motivate employees often.

Pros

As a company JPMC provides opportunities for advancement, growth, training and mobility.
As a company JPMC affords good salaries, good bonus, good pensions/401k
but......

Cons

All decisions are at the whim of your manager, or the manager above them.
And I use the word whim as there is never any logic behind the major decisions, it's what ever which senior exec decides at the time, be this site strategy, platform choice, off shoring etc
None of the decisions are made with any facts or bearing on reality, senior managers are just trying to keep their senior execs happy/passive/quiet

The investment bank arm of the firm now run all departments and they are bringing in more of them from other banks, this would be ok if they had any sight to the future, but they seem to be more intent on this quarters bonus and not next years growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not lie to your staff and treat them like fools as they are not.
The majority are intelligent, professional people, so don't talk to them like imbeciles.
If you are shutting a dept and moving it to another state to be closer to the senior manager, tell them so, don't pretend it's for cost reasons when the staff and location costs are obviously more expensive, you lose all respect from that point onwards.

Pros

Awesome benefits
Nice kept up with facilities
Friendly atmospheres
Variety of hours and shifts

Cons

Upper management! NO appreciation for hard work. Promotions and raises based off of personal preferences of senior management. Supervisors who are not best candidates or do not have the experience are gived their jobs and thrown into the positions with not training at all.

Advice to Senior Management

Base raises and promotions off hard work and education not off of personal relationships.

Pros

Pay
Benefits
Communication from management
Type of work

Cons

Management gets angry when stressed! That is very frustrating.
Slow computers is a pain.
Management doesn't address everyone of issues.

Advice to Senior Management

respect!

Pros

Various LOB and technologies, good 401k match, budget will be provided on popular projects

Cons

Business case approvals are joke, GTI force ratings is popularity contest between manager on your performance, always be nice to managers (or they will stab you in back), managers have wrong skillset for business, too many bankers managing technology without clue to functionality, No raises are causing forced attrition, secret layoffs

Advice to Senior Management

be honest with employees, manage Business-as-usual vs project work, All project work creates more Business-as-usual, retain people by bringing new business to team not reduction of costs and labor, let immediate managers manage

Pros

You are highly compensated for good work. They provide a proven system in an attempt to help you be successful in your branch.

Cons

Very political work environment. You can quickly become blacklisted if you do not perform according to their standards. Going against the grain and/or making any new suggestions is frowned upon.

Advice to Senior Management

It is not appropriate to share HR information in reviews and/or personal conversations.

Pros

Nice building, big desks, white noise in air filtration system and clean in office and no holidays.

Cons

Change of schedule with no prior acknowledgement or approval, days off are canceled, weekend rotations are changed without acknowledgment, if you cause company a loss you will lose your job, manager will throw you under the bus to save face, managers know very little about being managers, hours and days of work change on a weekly basis you will find yourself working 6 days a week 2 times a month because they will cancel your trade day. You are told you will have 1 10 hr day a month but in actuality you will have them before/after holidays and every time there is a change in any operating system or policy. When you ask managers about the change in your schedule without them telling you their answer is "business needs come first and business rules" you have to have sick hours pre approved; yes I said pre approved. Even vaca and personal days that you were lucky enough to get approved they will still cancel them if they want; an approval means nothing to them! If management feels you do not need 4 hours off for an appointment they may approve what the feel is appropriate. You are to schedule your personal days off that you receive but if business is busy they will blackout all available days and if you don't use them you will lose them. They go off a "rolling calender" you are given a total of 7 days in a rolling calender before you are terminated. I have seen many people walked out, a manager fired and a manager tell someone if they interviewed for another dept they would not give a good recommendation for them. Managers are unethical and inappropriate and "clicky". if you want to succeed here you better smoke and go on smoke breaks with your manager. This is an absolutely horrible experience and I regret ever accepting my hiring offer.

Advice to Senior Management

Show your employees respect and if hours are going to change, TELL YOUR EMPLOYEES!!!!!!! Respect that we have families and lives outside of work too. It doesn't matter how bad the economy is, it doesn't give you the right to treat us however you want and do whatever you want with our schedules. You are the most unethical people I have ever met. I have never worked in a worse environment. I'm shocked and saddened by the level of professionalism.