Poor managment and organizational structure - Sales Director Morningstar Employee Review

1.0
Jul 31, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefit package seems to be the only positive to the company. However, because their policies aren't consistent across the business lines, there seems to be discrimination on what some of benefits are for employees depending on what business unit your work for except for health care benefits.

Cons

Morningstar has really poor talent in their management and organizational structure. There is no leadership and it still operates as though the company is small, private and working out of an apartment. They have not been able to change their internal structure to match their growth. The culture allows poor performers to do well and not produce but penalizes those who are productive, results oriented and could be instrumental to their growth. If I were a stock holder I would be very concerned.

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Pros

Collaborative environment, learning mindset, great work life balance

Cons

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4.0
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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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