JPMorgan Chase Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

Great leadership, good structure and support for employees

Cons

People work extremely hard here, extra hrs, weekends are common

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

On hands training. Supportive of decisions as long as you can validate the decusion rendered.

Cons

Lots if mandatory overtime, which is good at first. However, one eventually needs to rest and have time with family.

Pros

Great pay
Great benefits
Good hours
Positive learning experience
Managers cross train
Always room for growth

Cons

Really high sales expectations
Sometimes managers are unfair with days off
Very strict with policies behind teller lines
Can be stressfult

Advice to Senior Management

Tellers have personal lives as well with kids and people they take care off so having such strict policies about cell phones is really inconvenient.

Pros

Work with your school schedule if you're a part time employee. Great health benefits, you get discounts with phone companies

Cons

If you're a full time employee and want to go to school 5 and on it will be hard because it's a 9-6 job

Pros

Looks great on a resume'
Good benefits
competive salary.

Cons

very politically charged. Management spends more time networking, than developing .Limited training available. Yourcareer path is controlled by your direct report. To many cliques, and not enough team work.

Advice to Senior Management

Its' OK to promote awhite male, who is educated, whoisnot Mr Dimon. Quit the clique, as its toxic for business Work and life balance are more than asloganAllow for moves into other lines of business, an agile staff is imperative. Teach senoir management manners, being rude is never acceptable.

Pros

Was able to get a broad exposure
Developing challenging systems, handling large data volumes
Get to collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and skill sets

Cons

Peer review and forced ranking, across completely different roles and geographical locations
Matrix organization with managers in remote locations

Advice to Senior Management

Establish better work life balance for junior managers and project leads. Avoid comparing unrelated roles and force ranking developers negatively

Pros

the pay and the benefits are excellent the vacation time is awesome the pay for your shirts and ties which is also a bonus the insurance is great and also the job security

Cons

the black suits everyday makes you feel like you work in a funeral home management not very receptive to feedback lack of management skills no room for job growth or oppurtunity no raises and very hard goals to reach especially in the slower locations

Advice to Senior Management

listen to employees think like they would actually listen and take in feedback encourage employees and make changes treat all customers and employees equally

Pros

Always on top of technology day to day learning is awesome, for engineers is the place to be for 2 years and leave, chase will make you an expert on any field because they have all kind of problems.

Cons

Management is weak, they dont fight for their people, they do the force ranking review that even if you are great you never get an exceeds because they have a budget (industry standard but is unfair) no raises, so be sure you cut the best deal before you get in, the new healthcare is realy bad you pay 3000 in deductible and 2500 coinsurance and month to month is expensive, very near to a private insurance.

Advice to Senior Management

Give raises to your exceeds people and low pays to the new guys, they do the oposite and they always lose their Sr. Staff because of this.

Pros

Great people to work with. Everyone is helpful in your success.

Cons

Job descriptions and salaries seemed to be over-inflated at time of hire.

Advice to Senior Management

Be upfront about the true basis of pay when recruiting for new poe=sitions to be filled.

Pros

The employees are very friendly and the manager cared about my personal development. I had a lot of work to do and, I just wasn't sitting around.

Cons

It is a very big company so it's easy to get lost in the crowd. One has to take responsibility or else will be kicked aside.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve on the career development program available to the employee.
The performance management central should be continued, cos it is a great idea.