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      3.9

      75% would recommend to a friend

      (19,886 total reviews)
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      80% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

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      Morgan Stanley has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 19,886 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
      2.0
      Oct 9, 2014

      Great Company to get licenses; however, cannot trust advisors.

      Financial advisor associate
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      Pros

      They have a great training program for Financial Advisor Associates to obtain their licenses. Once you pass your series 7, 66 licenses they fly you to N.Y. for a one week intensive training program. I found this to be a great learning experience.

      Cons

      Both managers and senior advisors cannot be trusted. This program is designed for FAA's to fail. Management brags of a less than 5% success rate in the program unless you are a relative of a senior advisor. Nepotism is highly regarded in most offices, and their is "NO" incentive given to your success. Basically, the senior advisors use you for new revenue , and management encourages this behavior.

      1.0
      Apr 17, 2012

      If it didn't make so much money, nobody would work here.

      Vice president
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Looks good on resume

      Cons

      1. The technology is stuck in 1995. 2. Management is terrible at every level, from the supposed MDs of each group right up the chain. None of these people could be trusted to run anything. 3. Promotional opportunites are non-existent. If you're good at your job, they'll keep you in that exact job forever. 4. Pay is uncompetitive. 5. There are many questionable things that happen on the trading floor. 6. It's an extremely dull, repetitive place to work.

      1.0
      Nov 24, 2011

      Only take a job here if you have absolutely nothing else on the horizon

      Analyst ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      easy work, tuition reimbursement for grad school is decent good.

      Cons

      Pay is atrocious and the annual raises are a joke. You will be doing the same exact thing everyday and you will only be doing it 3 to 4 hours each day (which is a pro or con depending on what kind of person you are). Some people do work overtime (depending on your job) buy they only get paid half time for each hour over 40, not time and a half. Once you are in the operations department like I was it is very hard to get out. Another review said it best "If you have absolutely no ambition whatsoever and just want to coast through life then this is the place for you" A lot of your satisfaction will depend on which boss you have and my boss sucked. I got a new job and they are now paying me almost 40 percent more than what I was making at Morgan. I would have had to been at MS for at least 6 or 7 years to make that much. Work is extremely boring and repetitive. I don't know why a college degree is a prerequisite for these stupid operations jobs.

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