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I worked for JP Morgan Chase a couple of years ago, as part of the main technology division for the entire bank. If I remember correctly, this 'IT department'
by kokey 12y ago
I worked for JP Morgan Chase a couple of years ago, as part of the main technology division for the entire bank. If I remember correctly, this 'IT department' had the same headcount as Apple. It was an interesting place. There was a lot of technologies being used through the organisation, lots of python and Java code, perl with Mojolicious, puppet and cfengine, desktops were Linux based terminals connected to virtualised Windows desktops, Hadoop and Cassandra was being rolled out, interesting things with FPGAs were being done e.g. http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/110511-slides.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/110511-slides.... I worked with many skilled and experienced people, and nice people too. I have worked for many multinationals before, and this bank was certainly the most nimble of them all while being the biggest and most stable at the same time.
- arthurcolle 12y agoWhy did you leave?
- jbob2000 12y ago>I worked for JP Morgan Chase a couple of years ago My guess is that when they caused the recession, he got laid off.
- kokey 12y agoI got persuaded to join a start up full time, one I co founded years before joining the bank. In retrospect I should have remained at the bank.
- arthurcolle 12y agoCool I am starting at GS this summer so I was curious if you decided to move on from banking or of it was more you deciding to try something new.
- loganfrederick 12y agoI also worked for approximately two years at JPMC. My anecdotal experience (and of many friends in other departments) is that the bank is so large, that the following phenomena can be seen: 1. Yes, there is a lot of variety in technologies used. 2. This variation is due to the large organization not being structured for different departments to communicate with each other. 3. Therefore, for every department using Hadoop, you have one on COBOL. For every Scheme group on Linux, you have a Visual Basic group on Windows.
- kokey 12y agoYes, it was huge, and made up of a lot of units independently. They used to joke that the company was a technology vendor's delight, since they weren't very strict with what technology a department can choose to use, leading to finding a bit of almost every vendor somewhere. When I was there they had a push towards centralising IT between the divisions, providing common services and support to get economies of scale. I suspect this is a cyclical trend over decades.