Great people, Good opportunities, bad management vision - Infrastructure Manager Morgan Stanley Employee Review

3.0
19 June 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent salaries and great people to work with. Good opportunities for employee's just starting out in a career with excellent graduate programs

Cons

Inability to deliver projects in an appropriate timescale. Projects often have longer timescales as a result of poor communication and lack of ownership. The business is trying to run a centralised IT management structure in a global environment causing delays as a result of time differences. Often I had to attend conference calls late into the evening because of the time difference with New York. Meetings often talk a lot about the solution and actions taken but at subsequent meetings nothing had been accomplished.

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Cons

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