MSCI Associate reviews

4.3

82% would recommend to a friend

(261 total reviews)
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Henry A. Fernandez

94% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Associate employees have rated MSCI with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 261 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Associate professionals have an excellent working experience there. MSCI is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Associate professionals compared to other employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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261 reviews
1.0
Jun 29, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The employees in many of the departments are good people and are a joy to work with, but this excludes nearly all management.

Cons

Senior Management tells HR to tell any employee that is concerned about their low salary that it will ensure that they are brought up to market rate at the end of the year, but refuse to discuss at anytime market rate figures or ranges. At the end of the year, they don't increase salaries (nearly across the board) by much. Most of the jobs in several departments are being shipped overseas despite a lack of qualified applicants in those regions. End of year reviews are useless because if your manager decides you performed well, but senior management doesn't want to give you a bonus that reflects that performance, they just tell your manager to change your performance score (this really happened and was discussed with several employees during their performance reviews by the managers forced to change the scores).

1.0
Jun 24, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits are good, with a solid retirement contribution match. Also, everyone gets 4 weeks of vacation (though that is a negative for those working there for many years).

Cons

The company is only in the business of growth through acquisition. It then fails (miserably) at recognizing the difference between the many companies it has acquired. Senior management lies to employees, falsely promising salaries will be increased at certain times. Salary for an Associate could be $30,000 or $100,000, depending on when you were acquired, regardless of experience/education. So someone with a MBA and Doctorate and 10 years experience could make less than a newly hired fresh-out-of-undergrad person. That doesn't mean you should try to work there fresh out of school. Morale in every office is terrible because of the extremely high "voluntary" turnover rate. They won't report the information, but I'm guessing MSCI has 40% annual turnover. Employees are regularly training their own replacements in India/China. Certain individuals force their way up the corporate ladder, stepping on everyone in their paths. In sum, it's really a terrible place to work.

4.0
Mar 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation, Work culture, People, Overall aptitude of the technical team

Cons

Micro management, unwarranted prejudice shown by managers, little scope for growth and tendency to get into comfort zone

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