Many years with them - Anonymous employee Morgan Stanley Employee Review

4.0
Apr 7, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, opportunities to grow within, supportive management in some offices (all offices are a different), they believe in everyone holding integrity, respect for each other in all ways. Management tries to be supportive with financial advisors new to the industry.

Cons

lower pay (if salary employee). Financial Advisor positions are 90% failure rate coming in new to industry. Most won't try to get to know you until you have been their a while. The seasoned advisors are not open to bringing in partners like management wants them to, so new FA's be warned. Lots of hours marketing, calling, networking to build your business if new. That never ends as you must always bring in new clients to keep your business growing.

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Culture is great Hours are not bad, rarely work on weekends and track the market open and close Networking opportunities

Cons

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3.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

Very good co-workers, Great technology stack. Lot of new technologies and integration with current work.

Cons

They dont even give you a MS cup. They ask you to buy it for 5$. So cheap! Management big on "Giving back", Immediate managers do not like it and are not supportive. Lay off employees twice a year to show profits. Only worried about shareholders and clients. Don't know the criteria for lay-off. So, you are always worried if it is your turn. They boast about mental health and wellness. No good, when they layoff employees like this. HR = Horrible Resources. When you are laid off, they shoo you away as if you are a fly. You feel miserable. They themselves say - "We are better than Facebook or Oracle. We dont fire you at 6 AM over email." Gosh! What a comparison!

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