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3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(19,817 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 19,817 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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4.0
May 20, 2016

Good, but not great

Recommend
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Pros

Meritocracy and the best technology company on wall street. Exciting projects and minimal red tape. Great investment in technology and good collaboration with the business.

Cons

Salary is not competitive. Too many senior management people making it hard for star performers to get promoted. Sometimes the work pressure can be a little too much.

2.0
May 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Generous initial base pay, benefits included personal life insurance, and state-of-art facilities. Networking opportunities within firm departments, other banks, insurance companies, mutual fund companies, third-party market researchers, and insitutional asset managers.

Cons

Stalemate office environment. Senior management depreciates lower level employees. Highly political. Very little structure led to lots of wasted time, boredom, and late night cold calling. The pay grid discourages mid-senior level advisors transfer AUM to new hires because MS pays new hires a higher grid rate. It's part of the program. In your first year, you get paid a higher rate than your third year. That's right. You initially make more in base pay + rate of commission, compared to, say fifth year. It's a downward pay rate slope. Because it's understood that you should have a larger AUM as time goes on. It's designed to pay upfront in first year, then decreases significantly. By the end of the third year, you're expected to live off AUM entirely. But the capital raising goals don't stop after you graduate the program. And they will cut your pay grid to about 35% after you hit a certain AUM.

4.0
Apr 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

1:Company is very good 2:Work from home. 3:Unlimited sick leaves. 4:Free Cabs. 5:Overall very good investment bank. 6:15 holidays.

Cons

1:Company takes advantage of people and give them contractual offers after clearing 5-6 rounds of interview and tell them to join from Pride and optimum search or some other unknown consultancies with very high salary (Never accept contractual position don't get trapped ) 2:They take interview like they will make rockets from you but once you are in you have do support and clear dirt everday. 3:My team was very bad no support from team members are like wolfs never supports you. 4:No KT for new members you have to understand application by debugging. 5:Old team members are spoiling environment.

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