Think twice before you apply here - Analyst Morningstar Employee Review

1.0
Oct 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits and pay are fair, bonus plan was good but it changed.

Cons

Save yourself the headache, seriously. I worked here for 5 years, and what started as a great experience slowly turned into a full-blown circus. As an analyst, I interacted with senior leadership who were either completely unresponsive or blissfully unaware of what was actually happening. The C-suite? A rotating cast of buzzword enthusiasts who loved to “synergize” and “align” without ever saying anything meaningful. Watching executives drop like flies every other month became its own weird spectator sport. Middle management isn’t much better. They love micromanaging everyone else while doing next to nothing themselves. My manager would stroll in whenever he felt like it and leave just as freely meanwhile, the rest of us had to log every minute like inmates in a minimum-security facility. Oh, and the mandatory return-to-office policy is jumping to four days a week in 2026 because clearly, morale wasn’t low enough already. HR? Think ghosted emails, biased decisions, and zero accountability. You either become your own advocate or get steamrolled by people with too much ego and not enough sense. Speaking of egos collaboration with the offshore team in Mumbai was… let’s just say “emotionally high-maintenance.” The European counterparts were more chill, just mostly unresponsive. The freedom and autonomy that once made this place tolerable have completely vanished. The layoffs, the constant changes, the unspoken dread it’s like working in a corporate haunted house. I’ve watched too many talented, hardworking people leave (or be laid off ) to pretend it’s salvageable. Final verdict: skip the stress. There are better jobs out there that won’t drain your soul one micromanaged minute at a time.

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Cons

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4.0
Apr 14, 2026
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Pros

Really kind people work here, for the most part everyone I have worked with is smart and I have learned so much from them. There are great benefits: unlimited PTO, 6 week paid sabbatical is earned after 4 years of employment, 6 month maternity leave. Great location of an office. Great work life balance.

Cons

Not very competitive pay and it is easy to hit a ceiling in your career development. New HR policies are kind of strange, will not promote you unless you make enough money to be promoted which they designed the system to make it so you cannot go up. HR has also laid people off because they make too much money without considering the consequences of removing senior employees with unique/not stored intelligence vital to the company. They also hired a bunch of remote employees, then implemented a 4 day required in office rule no matter if you live states away from an office, which pushed hundreds of people to quit, not receive their bonus, and not require M* to pay them severance. It didn't use to be this way but the last year or so has been strange.

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