Good place to work for one single year - Software Engineer Chase Employee Review

2.0
May 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Your coworkers are nice, because at least in the SF offices almost every software engineer comes from boot camps, and they've lived lives outside the CS world, and they're chill and willing to teach.

Cons

Chase is a cheeeeeap, hidebound, out of touch company. They do not give good raises and they try to gaslight you that what they do give is market rate. Stay one year because they start you at a decent salary (I got $5K more by negotiating), but there is no IC promotion track, so leave ASAP. If you want to go into management, and you are the kind of mild-mannered white guy who would actually get promoted by the mild-mannered white guys who currently command personnel, you could stay longer; or if you use politics to get transferred to another team so you can learn another language on the company dollar, those are both fine reasons to stay longer. No other reason really qualifies. The ancient tech stack is actively making it harder for you to get other jobs. There is no one senior to show you things and raise your skill level, because anyone senior leaves.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

-we have 5 managers and each of them get replaced bi-annually. -The management hired does not know anything about finance, yet tasked to manage financial professionals. Zero standards for recruitment. Imagine this: An accounting firm is looking for a new accountant. The manager goes out and hires 5 "accountants" but not a single one of them is a CPA. You think, "how could this happen?" That's JPMC for you. -HIGH PRESSURE SALES TACTICS.***

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