Morgan Stanley reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(19,907 total reviews)
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Morgan Stanley has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 19,907 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Morgan Stanley 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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20K reviews
4.0
Sep 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learn a lot if you are new to the Finance and Risk Industry. Great stepping board to get higher paying jobs.

Cons

Not very meritocratic. You have to learn to be a YES man, if you want to keep your job. All analysts and associates are underpaid.

3.0
Apr 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* It's rewarding to work with and help clients. * You can literally build your own business within a business. * There is a lot to learn to enhance your own peronal wealth building. * You meet some pretty interesting people with dynamic and varied backgrounds.

Cons

* Success in this business is very difficult. * The ability to build a business to a level of high compensation takes a lot of time and perserverance.. * The interests of the firm, the client, the shareholder, and the employee are rarely aligned.

2.0
Mar 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Premier investment company. You will get some good experience although the approach is much more segmented. This allows management to plug and play people instead of developing a more broad knowledged individual. This is also why people leave the firm- lack of training and a dead end job.

Cons

The company has changed alot over the years- you feel like a number. They don't value effort any more- it's about dollars and sense even if that means putting people in seats that don't know what they are doing to save 20k a head. Sad but that is what the firm has come to. Poor leadership from the top- manage by fear not by what you can accomplish.

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