Hell on Earth - Anonymous employee MSCI Employee Review

1.0
Oct 20, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Immense resources available to improve technical skills. Management tries to provide perks such as "fun days" and cultural celebrations.

Cons

Blind leading the blind. Management's goal is turn everyone into a sales person - thus, there is not much breadth with work but significant depth with MSCI data and products. Leadership style of upper management is to instill fear with use of threats and intimidation. You always feel on edge.

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MSCI Response
6y
We are sorry to read your comments. Companies like Glassdoor are an important source of improvement data and we take the opinions of current and past employees very seriously. Our strategy is to create a OneMSCI culture – both internally but also for our clients. There are opportunities to be a subject matter expert with depth in our products, as well as opportunities to have a broader understanding for our client facing sales people. The success of the organization, our clients and our shareholders – and the success of our people – depends on having both. Regarding your comments around Leadership style, all our managers and leaders are provided feedback directly during the annual Engagement Survey results period – as well as on an ongoing basis, and we are always keen to support both managers and employees through any challenges as raised. We are proud of the fact that we have people who are smart, creative, have high integrity and collegiate in nature and we do not support the methodology or style you mention. Please do contact your local HR Generalist to discuss your concerns.

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