J.P. Morgan reviews

Legal treated as a cost centre. Expect to pay for your ticket to the Legal Christmas Party. Limited career progression at VP and above in Legal. Those who get promoted tend to be the political players who management favour. Legal take a limited view on wider types of career progression. Limited budget/support available for further education. Limited flexibility regarding work from home/part time work arrangements. You are not allowed to work from abroad even for a short period of time. You are not allowed to work out of foreign JPM offices even for just a day or two. Compensation is below market. J.P. Morgan underpay compared to competitors. If you are not happy with your pay, JPM assumes you will leave and they will just hire someone else. Don’t expect to be able to negotiate your salary after you accept the job offer. Emphasis on members of the legal department participating in ‘forums’ and departmental committees, and taking on extra work in other departments (leaps), but the extra work is not acknowledged with an uplift in bonus/career progression opportunities.

If you want to work for JP Morgan, get ready to be dehumanised, stripped you from your name until you become just employee ID and the statistics they will accumulate as long as you work there. You will struggle to find real human connection from patronising, faceless emails advising you will tracked from your badge swipe, ensuring you are in the office as required! You will receive an automatic warning if so. Take some time to read JP Morgan data privacy my price and how much they collect, what they do to your data. (Spoiler alert, they collect your data and have right to store it overseas with lesser privacy data regulation, and potentially sell and or give them away to third parties) Run whilst you can