Regret going to JPMC interview first, not Amazon’s

Oct 20, 2020 32 Comments

Hi, so I’m a 2020 grad in India and during my campus placements in my final year, I had a couple of decent interviews lined up in the same slot. I went to JPMC SDE first (since probably they started interviewing earlier than others and the HR knew me) and got selected. So at this time I knew nothing about FAANG (I was very naive in college so please dont judge me). I recently started at JPM and I certainly dont like it, techs are literally treated as 2nd class citizens here and now that I know of it I feel so bad and there’s so much regret that it’s depressing for me :( Im so upset I didnt go to the Amazon interview happening right in the same lobby or Atlassian or even Walmart or Adobe. Now all these tech companies seem better to me than JPM and I kinda feel extremely sad about it (I’m almost sure I would have been able to crack the Amazon interview then as I did talk to my friend who cleared it and got an idea that even I could’ve. The amazon friend of mine works in AWS and says the work is pretty nice so I’ve so much regret now :( Any advice in coping with this would be really appreciated.

I want to leave JPM as soon as possible. Please suggest any good options? I’ve seen the blind community being extremely helpful and I’d like to not make another same mistake again, hence would love some advice from experienced folks.

The only pro of JPMC over these companies is that the base salary is almost 1.4 times the base offered by these other companies but JPMC doesnt have any stocks and I think almost all these companies offered stocks which makes the TC almost same so idk if that still counts as a pro.

TC: 21 lpa
YOE: 0

Edit : Can anyone please please also tell me which companies are hiring rn/which are the good companies I should apply to? Any advice is really appreciated.

#sde #interviews #faang #walmart #atlassian

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  • Dude, you are doomed! You can never leave JPM, no one will ever hire you again! No one ever has had a successful career at JPM, ever! Had you joined Amazon, by now you would have become the richest guy in town and would have had women throwing themselves at you. All you’d have to do is flash you Amazon employee badge or put your pic with your Amazon badge on tinder. Your dick would have also grown by 2 inches. But alas won’t happen for you. Get used to it.
    Oct 23, 2020 4
  • Goldman Sachs / IT
    OWWG73

    Go to company page Goldman Sachs IT

    OWWG73
    Don't worry OP, I started my career at JPM because I am dumb and eventually made my way out (I am not currently at Goldman) and everything is just better. It's not that tech is treated like second citizens at JP, on average (obviously team dependent) the skills of your co-workers / managers are just plain bad. It's not until you go to a real tech firm that you learn that repositories and not comments is how you preserve your changes. You'll learn that a method doesn't mean 500 to 1k lines of for loops copied and pasted then nested inside each other.

    The only good thing about JP is that it's very difficult to get fired. So although you'll never see any raises and get promoted very rarely, you can also just BS and do almost nothing without any consequences. No joke, I've seen people spent 2+ weeks changing the color of a button and that guy is probably a top JP tech manager by now.

    Grind that leetcode and just look for any way out. It took me years to escape and yes the journey is painful but I promise you, it's completely worth it. I have no doubt that you can do it sooner OP because you recognized that you are in a bad situation much faster than I did.
    Oct 23, 2020 1
    • Cause: "The only good thing about JP is that it's very difficult to get fired. So although you'll never see any raises and get promoted very rarely, you can also just BS and do almost nothing without any consequences."

      Effect: "the skills of your co-workers / managers are just plain bad. It's not until you go to a real tech firm that you learn that repositories and not comments is how you preserve your changes. You'll learn that a method doesn't mean 500 to 1k lines of for loops copied and pasted then nested inside each other."

      🤣
      Oct 26, 2020
  • Cisco
    impasta

    Go to company page Cisco

    impasta
    ex-Chase here. The grass is definitely greener on the other side. It's not a place to grow technically, but to rest and vest to a managerial path
    Oct 20, 2020 0
  • Visa
    Jbwp65

    Go to company page Visa

    Jbwp65
    Go get a new job and stop crying about it
    Oct 23, 2020 1
    • Citadel
      wQER83

      Go to company page Citadel

      wQER83
      Lol. Agreed .. don’t know why people cry about companies as if the company culture is gonna change based on their post. Just get a new job.
      Oct 23, 2020
  • Ex Jpmorgan too. Definitely glad I left. Not a good place to work for tech. A lot of workers drink the koolaid but they don’t understand jpm is only respected on your resume if you’re in investment banker. From experience I will tell you jpm does no good for your resume when applying to software engineering jobs. I would say do the minimal and try to leave. I wish I did earlier
    Oct 23, 2020 2