MSCI reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,016 total reviews)
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Henry A. Fernandez

88% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

MSCI has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,016 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MSCI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Oct 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work-life balance. Pretty flexible about working from home, or taking time-off. Office camaraderie is pretty good at most locations. Firm dips their toe into different areas of finance from Regulation, Factor Investing, Risk Management, etc. which may be good for someone who is just beginning their career.

Cons

Very unclear direction or strategy. Firm has a reputation for not being true to their word with clients. Culture of convenience rather than correctness. Product roadmap is unpredictable, and changes on a whim. Very top heavy. Upper management believes the company and employees operate in a certain way which is usually completely different than what really goes on day-to-day. People are not usually held accountable for errors or mistakes. Many team leaders avoid conflict so a lot gets shoved under the rug.

1.0
Sep 17, 2015

Bastion of Mediocrity and Circus Shows

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not many. Depending on your team you might have a better work life balance than some places, but this is only a temporary illusion as the ax is probably coming for you soon.

Cons

The facts: the company is aggressively cost-cutting to please a few activist investors. This means your job is constantly on the line, which management is happy to constantly remind you of. HR is dumb enough to send 'engagement surveys' a few days after a round of layoffs. Then the CEO send a strategy email the next day. Totally clueless. The people that are left are the ones who haven't been able to find jobs elsewhere and everyone is looking actively. Top level people constantly have jobs about strategy and where they are taking the product, but nothing is ever produced and no real changes are made. New technology will not be substantially better than the old technology. There is no real vision for a true product, only mindless repetition of the same strategy line preached to investors. Managers are openly aggressive and abusive. Stay away, and try to make a career somewhere else!

1.0
Jan 13, 2015

Abuse of People and discrimination

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ability to work from home when you need to, and ability to set your own hours.

Cons

People are made to work days and nights without resting, anytime something goes wrong, although at bonus time, that is quickly forgotten. Management never backs the employees because they are all scared for their own jobs. There are only a handful of women, because they RARELY choose any woman that is interviewed, and women are not promoted, so if you are a woman, expect that you will never move up (even after they were asked, and have taken on the additional responsibility of the position and they are already doing the job). The employee surveys every year show that the employees are VERY dissatisfied and do not trust the management. I wonder if they will ask us to fill out those surveys next year... I doubt it.

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