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3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(19,797 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 19,797 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
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The salaries are competitive, facilities are great, benefits are generous. Some of the managers are extremely bright, talented individuals. Everyone is very nice, but that can be similar in other investment banks. The people really make a difference between enjoying your work and hating it. Many of the young people share similar characteristics, so they can be your friends as well as your colleagues. There is room for personal growth, but you must be aggressive. Right out of college, the salary is around 60k for analysts in the operations department, and expect about 10k as a sign on cash bonus.

Cons

It seems that senior management may have a hard time listening to ideas. Maybe the compensation may be fuel to overconfidence--egos are nothing short. There are good times and there are bad times for every company, and for each person there is a different story to tell. Most importantly, working with good people is an important factor to individual satisfaction. For the people who simply do their work everyday, it may not be as exciting. I have had trouble communicating ideas to managers--they may ignore good suggestions based on title. Respect and title means a lot in this firm, so do not expect a meritocracy.

2.0
Jun 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent Research and Investment Bank. Trading floors are full of very talented people.

Cons

The management at the Regional Level is weak. Full of empty suits who are looking for ways to protect their jobs rather than grow the business. They bring absolutely no value to the relationships that I have with my clients. I hear that they paid some recruit over $5 million to join us and he/she only produced around $400,000 in the first year. What a waste of money!!! As a shareholder I an angry. This is money that I could have used for marketing and sales support

1.0
Jun 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It was a paycheck. Period.

Cons

The corporate culture is abominal. MS is the most anti meritocratic house on the Street. If you are in a non revenue cost center, God help you; you're percieved as nothing more that overhead. Management works 24 X 7 to offshore and outsource. Career development and training are non existent. If you don't have a "rabbi", you might as well get your resume on monster.com as your days are numbered.

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