Morgan Stanley Reviews

Pros

Great office, benefits, and people

Cons

Slow career advancement and promotion

Advice to Management

Work on developing leaders internally

Pros

- Good place to learn strict Change Management Process - Keeping pace with modern technology (although Long) - Great benefits - Good compensation

Cons

- Too much disparity between groups making employment experiences varied - If you like to move fast this is not the place for you. Being a bank holding company Morgan has lots of regulatory requirements making the environment slower paced - Some teams (not all) have poor work life balance

Advice to Management

Although management talks about transparency, there could be a lot more of it. More often than not this causes rumours to spread on the floor and insecurity causing un-needed attrition which causes the company to loose very skilled resources. Some of the managers on the floor are not true managers and are more reserved and dont get out of their offices much to talk to resources

Pros

Slightly higher than average annual fixed salary, and good health insurance benefit

Cons

Stingy and abusive demanding managers, frequent inter-team conflicts. long working hours with unpaid overtime and unpaid weekend hours, cut in yearly bonuses, stagnant salaries, lack of clear company directions, outdated technology, majority cheap offshoring & AI replacement worker abuses.

Advice to Management

Stop being so stingy for IT investment! Just hire more local staff already, instead of chasing "efficiencies. Be more flexible and accommodating for your workers. Tons of unpaid overtime and weekend hours is illegal if brought to light and more worker discontent continues. The 360 annual reviews is too overly picky and unjustifiable. Recently more focus on agile means more frequent layoffs for all workers who cannot...

Pros

If youre good and dont let HR negociate you down as they try everyone, you can get a good pay if youre a morgan robot theres a lot of advancement opportunities

Cons

VERY VERY stressful environment watch out of youre a consultant, they will hire you then lower your salary months later then do it again the following year they fire ppl every year if their numbers arent good Gives many objectives and puts 100 roadblocks to achieve them then puts pressure Non agile environment Slow technology adoption, they customize their infra so much that they avoid going to latest techs montreal...

Advice to Management

Agile environment, common sense, less pressure.

Pros

Nice professional environment to work at. Friendly people.

Cons

I've only worked with people too focussed on their work and not so much on Family and other things

Pros

Interesting to know more about Investment Interesting people Not bad salary

Cons

Some restrictions on technology. Somehow "old technology." But probably the best for the Bank.

Pros

Company with traditions in the tech space, good name on your CV, great bright colleagues from diverse backgrounds

Cons

politics & bureaucracy, slow to adjust with changing times, promotions are hard, hiring for senior roles with high pay the wrong people

Advice to Management

Get out of your comfort zone, it's time for change for the better and for everyone.

Pros

nothing to discuss here, avoid

Cons

fire easily and without any reason