{"id":504484,"date":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504484\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","slug":"jpmorgan-tells-its-65000-software-engineers-you-risk-falling-behind-unless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504484\/","title":{"rendered":"JPMorgan tells its 65,000 software engineers: You risk falling behind, unless…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JPMorganJPMorgan Chase is mandating AI adoption for its 65,000 software engineers, demanding measurable improvements in code quality and productivity. Internal tracking monitors tool usage, with lagging employees risking underperformance reviews. This push aligns with a broader industry trend, as tech giants integrate AI into performance evaluations and promotion criteria. JPMorgan Chase is raising the bar for its software engineers\u2014and the message couldn\u2019t be clearer. Internal documents reviewed by Business Insider show the bank has rolled out new performance objectives for its global developer workforce, the bulk of its 65,000-strong Global Technology division. The updated goals, published on the company\u2019s intranet earlier this month, require all software and security engineers to \u201cdrive excellence\u201d by adopting AI\u2014demonstrating measurable gains in code quality, speed, and productivity. Changes are set to reflect in employees\u2019 official goals by the end of March.The bank isn\u2019t just nudging people. Five engineers told Business Insider that AI adoption has become a recurring theme in manager conversations, intranet posts, and internal dashboards granular enough to show whether someone has installed GitHub Copilot\u2014and how often they\u2019re actually using it.<\/p>\n

JPMorgan\u2019s $20 billion tech bet comes with strings attached for its engineers<\/p>\n

JPMorgan is projected to spend roughly $20 billion on technology in 2026, dwarfing peers like Goldman Sachs. That investment now comes with direct expectations for its workforce. One engineer told Business Insider their manager said the rollout of new AI tools carries an \u201cexpectation\u201d that output should show \u201ca noticeable increase\u201d quarter over quarter. A pilot of Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code is also set to go live as early as April\u2014joining four other large language models developers already use, two from OpenAI and two from Anthropic\u2019s Claude.<\/p>\n

Tracking who\u2019s keeping up\u2014and who isn\u2019t\u2014is now part of the job<\/p>\n

The pressure isn\u2019t unique to Wall Street. Google, Meta, Amazon, and Salesforce are all factoring AI use into performance reviews and promotion decisions, according to a Wall Street Journal report. At JPMorgan, engineers who lag on adoption risk being seen as underperformers. The bank is also overhauling how it grades employees more broadly\u2014moving to two core dimensions: \u201cwhat you achieve\u201d and \u201chow you achieve it.\u201d Workers will be sorted into three buckets: \u201cstand out,\u201d \u201cachiever,\u201d and \u201cneeds improvement.\u201d For developers sitting on the AI sidelines, that last category is looking a lot closer.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JPMorgan Chase is mandating AI adoption for its 65,000 software engineers, demanding measurable improvements in code quality and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,176988,176991,100520,733,4308,4310,29495,19592,176987,176990,176992,86,176989,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-504484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-adoption-in-finance","tag-ai-tools-usage-in-wall-street","tag-anthropic-claude-code","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-github-copilot","tag-jpmorgan","tag-jpmorgan-chase","tag-jpmorgan-chase-software-engineers","tag-jpmorgan-technology-performance-objectives","tag-software-engineering-career-growth","tag-technology","tag-technology-investment-by-jpmorgan","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}