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    Found 6540 reviews

    3.7
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    90%
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    Morgan Stanley CEO James P. Gorman
    James P. Gorman
    2,751 Ratings
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    1. "excellent company"

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      Current Employee - Senior Data Scientist in Montreal, QC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than 3 years

      Pros

      good environment excellent workspace flexible hours

      Cons

      Until now I don't have any issue in this company

      Morgan Stanley2019-07-24

    2. "Awesome workplace"

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      Current Employee - Technology Analyst in Montreal, QC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Decent money, enthusiastic coworkers, passion for technology is very apparent, ~$5000 signing bonus for student, ~$5000 bonus/year (depending on performance) lots of opportunity to move up and move around

      Cons

      18 months before relocation is considered, $65000 for new grads in Montreal is not as competitive as some companies

      Morgan Stanley2019-09-11
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    3. "Very good work environment"

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      Current Employee - Integration Engineer in Montreal, QC
      Recommends

      I have been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      A lot of subject matter experts working closely together. Feels like a startup mode which is also great.

      Cons

      Nothing in particular to share.

      Morgan Stanley2019-09-04

    4. "Great Company"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      Former Employee - Product Manager 

      I worked at Morgan Stanley full-time

      Pros

      Nice people, good location, great salary

      Cons

      Need more stronger dev team

      Advice to Management

      Better review the project before start it

      Morgan Stanley2019-09-02

    5. "Good place to work"

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      Current Employee - IT Director in Montreal, QC

      I have been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than 8 years

      Pros

      the technology associate program is a good place to start and grow your network

      Cons

      the main decisions are still made in the headquarters changing positions is harder the higher up the chain you go

      Morgan Stanley2019-08-30
    6. Helpful (4)

      "Standart 9-5 boring place"

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      Former Employee - Operations in Montreal, QC
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than 5 years

      Pros

      Straightforward hiring process if you are not asking too much. RRSP and insurance are good. Culture is mostly safe for minorities and PoC, but don't expect to be promoted soon or at all. People are good. Smart and polite. It's a shame most of their talent is just wasted in paper-filling. Overall, solid 9-5 option if you don't care about your work and is excited to file tickets and reports everyday.

      Cons

      Bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy on every step of your way. The most boring org I've worked in. You need to get approvals for every baby step. They speak a lot about "innovations", but that's cheap talk. Good luck getting approved to work on something outside of your day-to-day tasks! Slim chances to grow. Becoming next level, a Vice President is super hard and sometime can take anywhere between 5 to 10(!)... years to get there. Or never. Tech stack is heavily customized and outdated. Forget about industry's best practices. Take any Java framework and substract year's worth of versions - that will be the version you will be using. New office at WeWork at L'Avenue is a disaster, there is no air to breathe. Number of nice people told me they left because of this. Just don't agree to work there.

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      Advice to Management

      There are layers upon layers of management and I'm sure they don't care about lowest level workers at all. As long as money are made. Otherwise, in a "bad quarter" expect to get fired. Don't worry, the upper level management will be fine.

      Morgan Stanley2019-08-16

    7. "Good"

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      Former Employee - Senior Project Manager in Montreal, QC

      I worked at Morgan Stanley part-time for more than 3 years

      Pros

      Good working environment and generally conducive.

      Cons

      Exposure to knowledge and experience limited.

      Morgan Stanley2019-07-26

    8. "Good Environment"

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      Current Employee - Associate in Montreal, QC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than 3 years

      Pros

      Competitive Salary and Benefits. (In my case) I have one of the best manager managers' line ever

      Cons

      Limited/Restricted/No Access to navigate between environments to develop ideas

      Morgan Stanley2019-07-02

    9. "Nice place to work for"

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      Former Employee - Manager 
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than 3 years

      Pros

      Decent Bonus, good policies for employees

      Cons

      Bad work life balance and timings

      Morgan Stanley2019-06-25

    10. "Amazing workplace"

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      Current Employee - Windows Specialist 
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Challenging, lots of knowledgeable coworkers

      Cons

      Lots of meetings and silos, inevitable due to the amount of staff in the company.

      Morgan Stanley2019-05-28
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