Morgan Stanley reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(19,824 total reviews)
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80% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Morgan Stanley has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 19,824 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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3.0
Jun 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and flexible time off, unless you become an FA. Salaried Positions are nice if you want security.

Cons

Working remote through pandemic for over a a year and a half, now executive leaders want to force employees back to the office. On branch level management is some what flexible but the ceo is driving a dictatorial and conservative agenda on employee work attitude, it’s pretty controlling. We’re all adults here, I thought we were a more progressive firm but it’s still traditional. On branch level management aren’t always on the same page when job responsibilities change, in my opinion there’s too many “ladders” and levels of direction that dilutes completely from top to bottom line. National managers sets goals for regional leadership, then regional sets goals for complexes, then complexes set goals for branches, then branches set goals for employees... its just messy and in WAA role they change it up dramatically on the national level without understanding what the role actually does day to day, just to meet numbers. They basically narrowed the scope of what our month performance is graded on, then sunset the role which increased our bandwidth, but during the performance review (which management just bs) didn’t want to even entertain the conversation of compensation increase. I was the top performing employee in my role, after the role changes this year I remained number one and my peers didn’t hit their numbers and management still didn’t want to consider the adoption and staying on top when I brought up compensation, just a pat on the back, and sold me the dream of how my achievements will bring me future success years down the line..

4.0
Mar 6, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of opportunities to increase compensation. You have the freedom to work whichever, wherever and wherever you want. Lots of resources at the firm to assist in meeting goals.

Cons

Challenging career path nowadays. Price compression and increased regulatory oversight allows for less compensation in some regards. Competition is Fierce.

5.0
Jan 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance is taken seriously. Friendly environment and co-workers.

Cons

Promotional process at the officer level is rigid, time consuming, and perceived as political. Team members and stakeholders suffer as the process often detracts from current work projects and adds to work loads. Employees become disheartened if they fail to be promoted and it trickles downward. Also, certain managers have tried to undermine career goals for their employees if it inconveniences or impacts them (e.g., refusing to permit a transfer for the best employee).

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