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      Bad project and bad management - Software Engineer Morningstar Employee Review

      1.0
      Jul 30, 2017
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good work life balance, nice people to work with. Good location. There are many training opportunities such as agile training.

      Cons

      The projects are old, monolithic systems that are hard to work with (business logic lives in big, thousands of line, stored procedures that no one understand, environment variables, connection strings, etc are hard coded everywhere, making the code unreleasable) Very little motivation and upward mobility (unless you are already a manager who is good at talking). Managers are micromanaging and rarely gives praises, only finding problems such as you missed a meeting, your refactoring effort produced some bugs, etc)

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      Morningstar Response
      8y
      Thanks so much for your feedback. We've definitely built and acquired a great many products over 30+ years. No doubt about that! For many of the older products, our challenge is to reduce and retire complexity that's been introduced over time. I'm sure that's not always fun. Like most organizations our size, I'm sure there are great managers and some who have room for improvement. My goal is to bring consistency to our leadership and I've been skipping levels of management to talk to people like you to find out what is working well and what is not. You don't have to wait for me to find you though, because you can always come speak to me. I'd love to hear from you.

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      Pros

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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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