Morningstar is not a company that appreciates career sales representatives - Sales Representative Morningstar Employee Review

1.0
Feb 1, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are a company that values giving back to the community and volunteer work. The company headquarters has a very relaxed corporate culture, with relaxed dress codes and no offices (even CEO Joe Mansueto does not have one). Morningstar also is very creative with corporate social events. The company encourages socializing and friendships among workers.

Cons

I believe that Morningstar does not want sales representatives who work for commission. The company wants account representatives who work for capped compensation. Their Book of Business compensation plan for its sales force is designed to limit the sales forces' overall compensation. In short, they simply don't want the sales force to make too much money.

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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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