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I 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 fol
by loganfrederick 12y ago
I 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.