HR - THE MOST EPIC FAIL - Anonymous employee Moody's Employee Review

1.0
13 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you like being insulted for your extra efforts, Management delivers trinkets at your desk telling you to “hold in there” and hosts “cupcake socials” so the "haves" can meet the "have nots" that do all the work for garbage pay, in comparison to similarly situated colleagues in other companies.

Cons

I would like to reiterate then post by another HR employee on July 31, 2015. Beware!!! The HR organization is a dysfunctional nightmare! “Leadership” is a laughing stock and the organization is toxic and disorganized. Getting ahead is impossible - no matter how hard you work. There are quite obviously “golden children” who have been assigned to high ranking positions in the recent HR restructure (merit??). Many of these individuals have been imported, at presumably great expense, to take the place of hard working Americans with experience, years of recognition and merit. At the same time, the costs associated with these employees appears to have drained the budget - in so much as there is nothing left to incentivize most workers or improve/ upgrade their conditions. You can make WAY more elsewhere with a more respectable and skilled Management team and incentive program.

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Cons

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Pros

- 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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