JPMC VP Software Dev in London, what’s it like?
At a retail bank currently, pay is good and WLB is amazing, but I’m stagnating and forced to babysit a team of consultants from WIPRO who don’t know their arse from their elbow so want out. A recruiter working for JPMC called, pay sounds good, just wondering about a few other things. What’s WLB like? Gf works in private equity and says IB will be similar, she often works until 3AM. Is it true a VP dev at JP is just a senior/lead? What’s engineering culture like? At my current place tech decisions are made without devs involved and just handed down, it’s really dumb. Changing culture is glacial at a 300 year old company. What are the WFH plans? 1-2 days a week would be ideal but don’t want to return to full time in office. Thanks
I guess it depends on team but do you know how often we would be expected to work weekends?
It’s ok. VP doesn’t mean very much given basically everyone is a VP at JP Morgan. Experience is very team dependant and JP Morgan is a huge organisation. Work life balance is decent in my team and I don’t think there are any big plans to rush technologists back into the office. Current messaging from leadership very much suggests that there is openness to a hybrid WFH/in-office model going forward. That being said, I’m leaving.
Sounds similar to my current company. How are they with tech standards and stuff, like is everything run by business people who want the world and they want it now without any regard to code quality? Or is it more engineer-led? Also how come you’re leaving?
There’s definitely more of an engineering and quality focus. Big push for raising standards and quality and reliability of software including modernisation. Of course, many teams have lots of technical debt but who doesn’t? Engineers are valued (to an extent) but ultimately it’s the business that sets the pace of change which isn’t unsurprising and isn’t likely to change. I’m leaving because I’m going to get a 70% increase in pay and a promotion elsewhere. Big IBs don’t necessarily pay that well imo. There are significantly better options for good engineers imo (buy side/FAANG/fin tech).
Op, can i know what is the tc communicated to you by the hr for VP levels
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It’s a bank trying to masquerade as a tech company..bureaucratic and red taped..but things could be bit better in certain teams