employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Morgan Stanley

Is this your company?

Morgan Stanley reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(19,852 total reviews)
avatar

Ted Pick

80% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Morgan Stanley has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 19,852 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).

Reviews by job title

20K reviews
2.0
Sep 26, 2022

Worst Place I've Ever Worked

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are good and they offer unique networking opportunities like virtual museum tours, zoom fitness classes, and mental health time off. They do offer great work/life balance also.

Cons

This is truly then most toxic culture I have ever experienced. If you are talented your manager and peers will take credit for your work and smother your potential then make you do all their work for them. They are status-quo people and feel if you don't like it just take mobility. Mobility is the dumbest thing I've ever seen since they have no onboarding program so when someone does take mobility they are set up for failure and have a much longer time adapting and learning the role that they are unqualified to take to begin with. My entire department came through from mobility and had no clue to how do their jobs. I felt like I was in the 13th grade working with these people. My management was the most incompetent group of people I've ever worked with and our ED couldn't even make their own PowerPoint slides themselves let alone know how to use a software system. The pay is below average and they want to overwork you if you're talented. They have no development which is why their leadership is trash. They promote based on tenure and not talent so expect to train your boss for years and get nowhere. I'm unsure how Morgan Stanley is successful at all, honestly. The incompetence, lack of diversity, and politics, makes this place seem like 1985. I'm sure there are some good departments but few and far between . The people are not kind or welcoming and it's a shark culture when there is no reason for it. No one will help you either if you complain and ask for help. It's a no win situation working here. If you work here, you're stuck with people treating you like trash until you leave. Not worth your mental health.

1.0
Apr 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learned a lot and they will pay for the series 7 and 66.

Cons

FAs treat the CSAs poorly. I had many incidents that I should have reported to HR. When you discuss those incidents with the manager they are very dismissive. Once the FA aggressive grabbed me by the arm simply because I did not comply with their request to follow them. I’ve seen FAs do things that shouldn’t be tolerated in the workplace. Managers there are puppets basically and do everything the FA asks even if its unethical. There are also no career opportunities for CSA unless you want to be a manager or a FA. Morgan Stanley is not very diverse. They lack woman and woman of color in the industry.

Viewing 226 - 228 of 19,852 Reviews

Glassdoor has 24,433 Morgan Stanley reviews submitted anonymously by Morgan Stanley employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Morgan Stanley is right for you.