Only take a job here if you have absolutely nothing else on the horizon - Analyst II Morgan Stanley Employee Review

1.0
Nov 24, 2011
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Pros

easy work, tuition reimbursement for grad school is decent good.

Cons

Pay is atrocious and the annual raises are a joke. You will be doing the same exact thing everyday and you will only be doing it 3 to 4 hours each day (which is a pro or con depending on what kind of person you are). Some people do work overtime (depending on your job) buy they only get paid half time for each hour over 40, not time and a half. Once you are in the operations department like I was it is very hard to get out. Another review said it best "If you have absolutely no ambition whatsoever and just want to coast through life then this is the place for you" A lot of your satisfaction will depend on which boss you have and my boss sucked. I got a new job and they are now paying me almost 40 percent more than what I was making at Morgan. I would have had to been at MS for at least 6 or 7 years to make that much. Work is extremely boring and repetitive. I don't know why a college degree is a prerequisite for these stupid operations jobs.

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Pros

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Cons

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