Fantastic benefits, nice CEO, but mindbogglingly incompetent and advantageous senior Managements. - Anonymous employee Morningstar Employee Review

3.0
May 22, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, lovely location, very nice working environment (architecturally).

Cons

It's a very comfortable place to work in financially, but not a great place to grow with. I've worked in several divisions of the company and was amazed to see how the senior managements are clueless of what is going on, extremely disorganized, and are never up-to-date with the ongoings in their own group. It is surprising how many of the managers will put their team members to work throughout the night for several days while they go home as the clock strikes 5pm. The company pays well, provide great benefits, but at the price of your sanity and personal well-being. I experienced very little growth.

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Pros

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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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