Cheap Fishbowl - Full Stack Developer JPMorganChase Employee Review

2.0
May 30, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Salary paycheck and office is close to my residence now that we must return post pandemic.

Cons

Worse than the new typical collaborative “open office environment” concept seen in similar corporate facilities. The Plano campus consist of the new theme to squeeze as many people as possible into a fishbowl. This is even more pronounced in the IT Developer areas. The company offers medical coverage but there is a tier system in place so the more successful you have been with your career expect to be penalized with higher cost of coverage (socialism mentality). I joined as a software engineer and began during the pandemic time working remote. No laptop or any type of WFH stipend offered. Expected to use your home personal equipment to work via VPN. Return to office and must work from a shared computer where you log into a desktop with personal credentials to identify yourself as the user. This is so they can move you around at moment’s notice and save the fee on laptops. Kind of cheap for a billion-dollar company! Company invested a lot of money into these new facilities pre-pandemic so now is forced to reject the work-from-home or even hybrid concept to justify real estate investment and receive local and state tax incentives. Nothing to do with collaboration. That is an excuse. Call it for what it is! If your political views don't lean to the far left this might not be the right fit from a culture perspective.

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5.0
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Pros

Work life balance is great

Cons

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3.0
Jul 20, 2026
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Pros

Good work and life balance. People are typically friendly.

Cons

RTO was reinstated with bad communication (we found out through the news) and you will be forced to commute even if your team is not co-located with you. Coworkers of mine who were hired as remote were made to in-office, forcing them to move their entire family. You will still have to pay for parking / food at their cafeterias. Compensation will be lesser than if you joined a tech-firm doing the same work. Advancing your career will require you to 'jump ship' in-between different financial companies. It is very hard to advance normally. AI adoption is a must (which makes sense for MY job) but it's to the point where our annual performance is based on how much AI we use.

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