Good company to start your career at - Anonymous employee Morningstar Employee Review

5.0
Oct 29, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits but fair pay

Cons

Virtually little to no opportunity for advancement. Heavy emphasis on hiring college graduates with little experience. Majorirty of employees are interested in career development, so you have a lot of people around the same age/experience level looking for advancement with little opportunity. If you happen to become a manager, there are virtually no career progression opportunities afterwards. Also, senior management does nothing to require managers to effectively manage and be accountable for morale Quality, development and productivity standards are inconsistent across groups within the company. Training is weak, conducted through occasional external workshops and there are no standards/measurements/consequences for acceptable management standards. As a result, there are some really ineffective managers on the foor impacting employee morale, productivity and creating ineffective processes.

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Cons

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Pros

Really kind people work here, for the most part everyone I have worked with is smart and I have learned so much from them. There are great benefits: unlimited PTO, 6 week paid sabbatical is earned after 4 years of employment, 6 month maternity leave. Great location of an office. Great work life balance.

Cons

Not very competitive pay and it is easy to hit a ceiling in your career development. New HR policies are kind of strange, will not promote you unless you make enough money to be promoted which they designed the system to make it so you cannot go up. HR has also laid people off because they make too much money without considering the consequences of removing senior employees with unique/not stored intelligence vital to the company. They also hired a bunch of remote employees, then implemented a 4 day required in office rule no matter if you live states away from an office, which pushed hundreds of people to quit, not receive their bonus, and not require M* to pay them severance. It didn't use to be this way but the last year or so has been strange.

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