You can learn a lot, but it takes years to advance. - Director Moody's Employee Review

3.0
Jan 5, 2009
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Pros

Good opportunity to learn a lot about various asset classes, but only if you are a self-starter. If you like stability and don't mind the cubicle lifestyle, this may be a good place for you. You can phone it in here and probably get by. Pay is average, with less upside than the street but more job security.

Cons

Don't work here if you want to climb the ladder quickly - lifers are everywhere. Underperformers are not weeded out until there's a fire, and then both good and bad are let go. It's not like MS or Goldman where it's "up or out" -- here, you will have a nice office with decent pay and benefits, but promotions take forever because there is so little turnover at the management ranks.

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Pros

Good benefits, life-work balance, culture, and growth opportunities

Cons

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2.0
Jul 21, 2026
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Pros

Great work-life balance. Decent benefit.

Cons

They don't pay you much. They don't treat engineers as profession. They think engineers are all the same and can swap any of them them with joiner engineers or contractors. They thought they can hire a contractor for 4 months for a project. They took a full month to get a laptop for a contractor, took one more month to get them through onboarding, then took one more month to get them use to the codebase, then the contractor wrote one line, then the 4 months was up. We had to repeat the process with a new contractor.

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