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3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(19,808 total reviews)
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73% positive business outlook

Morgan Stanley has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 19,808 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Morgan Stanley 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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2.0
Jan 21, 2021

Solium is dead

Recommend
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Pros

Solium was a great company. It was youthful, vibrant, fun, growing, and was a great place to work.

Cons

But now Solium is dead. The creeping big corporate policy has suffocated the once energetic company. You write code to do what the people in New York who wear suits want. You follow the stifling guidelines about what opinions you're allowed to have, and say anything out of line and you're gone. Solium used to be a company that acknowledged that people made mistakes in their past, but we lost a lot of good people because the suits in New York don't like criminal backgrounds. Propagating the failures of the US Prison system up into Canada by corporate mandate. You can't get a better job title or a raise there because it's impossible, but if you threaten to quit, then in less than 72 hours it's suddenly possible. You're too valuable on your team to be given a new role, but not valuable enough to be paid fairly. No more Christmas party, because Christmas is a bad word. Heaven forbid you make a joke about something that's not politically correct. All the eccentric and fun people have left or have been fired. The company is now a desiccated husk of its former self. An automaton puppeted by Wall Street.

1.0
Dec 12, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits to staff are really good.

Cons

We are made to attend all these diversity event but in reality this is just a tick the box. Morgan Stanley Canary Wharf is thriving on individual racism and institutional racism. It is the order of the day for me. You cant even speak up about this. If you speak up the attacks intensifies. You are blacklisted and marked. It feels like skin colour is a big factor in promotion, compensation, bonuses, and the work allocated to you.

1.0
Aug 19, 2017

Morgan Stanley Mumbai Review

Recommend
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Pros

I worked for Morgan Stanley Mumbai, Tech & Data division (Software development) for few years. For first 3-4 years it was a great place to work. There was a focus on technology solutions for the business. People were ethical and genuinely wanted to make a difference. Work environment was open. Also, Firm was doing good on revenue & profits. But after that, due to bad policy decisions and weak leadership hiring, good and talented people from business side and IT side started leaving the firm and the situation deteriorated. I do not see any reason for a talented professional to work at Morgan Stanley now. If you really don't care about your learning and only want to be lured of some percentage of hike, then only join Morgan Stanley.

Cons

Even in Software development divisions, middle & senior management is non technical or out of technical touch. Their only focus is to keep their jobs by politics or otherwise. Firm is New York focused and teams in Mumbai office are mere daily wage kind of labor for them. Very poor facilities to employees as compared to other investment banks & software cos. in India, be it salary structure, cafeteria, transportation or anything else. There is no parity or a logical approach for yearly promotions. It is based on who knows who. Kind of culture that reminds about a typical govt. office. Annual performance reviews and ratings are not transparent.

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