Challenging and fun place to work - Associate/Quant Morgan Stanley Employee Review

4.0
10 Dec 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation Challenging tasks Creativity acknowledged/supported International teams Normal working hours

Cons

Sometimes boring. Lack of freedom: have no word in what project to work on. (Especially coming from the academia this is unusual for me.) Have to spend lots of time gathering information about undocumented systems.

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Cons

They dont even give you a MS cup. They ask you to buy it for 5$. So cheap! Management big on "Giving back", Immediate managers do not like it and are not supportive. Lay off employees twice a year to show profits. Only worried about shareholders and clients. Don't know the criteria for lay-off. So, you are always worried if it is your turn. They boast about mental health and wellness. No good, when they layoff employees like this. HR = Horrible Resources. When you are laid off, they shoo you away as if you are a fly. You feel miserable. They themselves say - "We are better than Facebook or Oracle. We dont fire you at 6 AM over email." Gosh! What a comparison!

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