Good opportunity - Anonymous employee Moody's Employee Review

4.0
16 Feb 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Ability to interact with a strong team Pay is high relative to public sector. Smart, urbane colleagues. Great reputation. 10 weeks paternity leave. Can be intellectually stimulating.

Cons

The business model is strange. It’s a conflict of ethics. You are paid by those you rate. Yet for some reason the market accepts your ratings. I can’t explain it. They pay lip service to ethics but believe me they know on which side their bread is buttered. You simply cannot expect a billion dollar company with 20% profit margins to be angelic. If you do, I have a bridge just right for you. If it’s not working out they will drop you like a hot potato and literally throw you out of the door. What happened to loyalty? Pay is small relative to Wall Street.

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- Good company wide culture (see notes below on ratings specific culture) good people - Great work life balance (especially for finance in NYC) - Opportunity to learn from most of the c-suite - If you want the return offer you can usually get it (only know one person from my year who wanted one and didn't get one). - The ratings intern program is essentially gauging if your competent to extend a return offer. You don't actually do much work for your team.

Cons

- Can't touch anything an actual associate does because of regulations in industry (don't get exposure with what you'll actually be doing full time). - Because you can't touch anything you basically spend the entire summer being talked at by senior analysts (learned a ton but can get repetitive). - Hybrid schedule is only really adhered to by associates on your team, so the office feels deserted at times. The seniors don't come into the office much. The ratings floors (separate from the rest of the business) have a stale and silent feeling. - Because you don't really do much for your team it's hard to create relationships with them. - Your capstone project can be on a completely different industry then the one you're assigned to.

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