MSCI reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,017 total reviews)
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Henry A. Fernandez

88% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

MSCI has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,017 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MSCI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Mar 7, 2015

Always shuffling and rarely rewarding

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some occasional interesting innovation. Index part strong but facing competition

Cons

Very unstable with a lot of mistrust. Middle management paralyzed by fear of senior management. A huge disfunctional family. Especially when systems are troubled. Which leads to more troubles. Managers are afraid to tell upper managers of problems. And some managers even use a system problem, which occurs with growth usually, to exploit junior staff in weird political power stances and clannish contexts. There's a long history of such cases. Because no real communication with remote management is allowed, and most managers fear the wrath of distant so called supervisors. Ranging from the programing struggles to client trainings to travel services. Clear examples of far away or else unavailable and brutal management not wanting to deal with whole picture,so unfairly holding back or just punishing lower staff who are working just as hard, if not harder than some of the higher levels to rally solve the problems. Their field "managers" don't really want or know to solve problems. We just can't get anywhere anytime fast, and the useless big outsourcing just makes it all worse. A crippling circle. Especially with newer product and basic office management. And those hard working staff who try to bring issues to far away attention have only been smacked down, never encouraged. Certainly not rewarded. You can only survive and move ahead here if you really like getting slapped or if connected to the cronies in some weird way..

1.0
Mar 5, 2015

Employees treated poorly - High turnover

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most of the late nights/all-nights can be handled from home. Vacation days are generous.

Cons

High turnover is a problem. This company cannot keep good people because they treat them so poorly, like promoting people with "dry" promotions (you take on the responsibility, but you don't get the title or the pay). They only promote once a year, so anyone who takes on a new, bigger job, has to perform the job for a year before there is any chance of promotion. Then, many times, the promotion still doesn't come. I hate to admit this, but I see this especially with women,who are rarely promoted - and frankly, rarely hired. Also, there is no respect for family, or personal time. The company comes first. The company always has a reason to give slim bonus/compensation packages, even in the best years. Almost everyone in the office is looking for a job.

3.0
Mar 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance in most teams... if you are good, you get very high visibility as the peers are very lazy to put any efforts im their work

Cons

New thought process not encouraged... very much process driven... senior management unapproachable

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